A Social Reasoning Mechanism Based On Dependence Networks Export

@inproceedings{Sichman1994, abstract = {This paper describes the fundamental concepts of a social reasoning mechanism, designed to be part of an agent's internal model, in a multi-agent systems (MAS) context. It enables an agent to reason about the others using information about their goals, actions, resources and plans. Every agent stores this information in a data structure called external description. We have formally defined and implemented the concepts of external description, dependence relation, and dependence network. One of the main contributions of this work is that an agent can infer his dependence on others using either his own plans or those of the others. As a result, we have defined a preliminary taxonomy of dependence situations regarding the goal being analysed (unilateral, mutual or reciprocal) and the sets of plans used in this reasoning mechanism (mutually or locally believed). We have used this model to build a dependence network simulator, called DEPNET, which is also briefly described in this paper.}, author = {{Sichman}, Jaime {.} and Conte, Rosaria and Demazeau, Yves and Castelfranchi, Cristiano}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '94)}, citeulike-article-id = {3149624}, editor = {Cohn, A. G.}, keywords = {cognitive-modelling, communication, cooperation, multiagent-systems}, pages = {188--192}, posted-at = {2008-08-22 17:09:54}, priority = {2}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons Ltd.}, title = {A Social Reasoning Mechanism Based On Dependence Networks}, year = {1994} }

TY - CONF ID - Sichman1994 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3149624 N2 - This paper describes the fundamental concepts of a social reasoning mechanism, designed to be part of an agent's internal model, in a multi-agent systems (MAS) context. It enables an agent to reason about the others using information about their goals, actions, resources and plans. Every agent stores this information in a data structure called external description. We have formally defined and implemented the concepts of external description, dependence relation, and dependence network. One of the main contributions of this work is that an agent can infer his dependence on others using either his own plans or those of the others. As a result, we have defined a preliminary taxonomy of dependence situations regarding the goal being analysed (unilateral, mutual or reciprocal) and the sets of plans used in this reasoning mechanism (mutually or locally believed). We have used this model to build a dependence network simulator, called DEPNET, which is also briefly described in this paper. EP - 192 TI - A Social Reasoning Mechanism Based On Dependence Networks PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd. T2 - Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '94) SP - 188 KW - cognitive-modelling KW - communication KW - cooperation KW - multiagent-systems AU - Sichman}, Jaime AU - Conte, Rosaria AU - Demazeau, Yves AU - Castelfranchi, Cristiano A2 - Cohn, AG PY - 1994/// ER -