Mental States of Autonomous Agents in Competitive and Cooperative Settings

Authors:
Walid S. Saba
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IEA/AIE '02 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: developments in applied artificial intelligence
Year:
2002

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Abstract

A mental state model for autonomous agent negotiation in is described. In this model, agent negotiation is assumed to be a function of the agents' mental state (attitude) and their prior experiences. The mental state model we describe here subsumes both competitive and cooperative agent negotiations. The model is first instantiated by buying and selling agents (competitively) negotiating in a virtual marketplace. Subsequently, it is shown that agent negotiations tend to be more cooperative than competitive as agents tend to agree (more so than disagree) on attributes of their mental state.