Norm Monitoring Under Partial Action Observability

In the context of using norms for controlling multiagent systems, a vitally important question that has not yet been addressed in the literature is the development of mechanisms for monitoring norm compliance under partial action observability. This paper proposes the reconstruction of unobserved ac...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on cybernetics 2017-02, Vol.47 (2), p.270-282
Main Authors: Criado, Natalia, Such, Jose M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Action observability
Algorithms
Autonomous agents
Context
Monitoring
Multiagent systems
norm monitoring
Norms
Observability
Observability (systems)
Proposals
Robots
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Summary:In the context of using norms for controlling multiagent systems, a vitally important question that has not yet been addressed in the literature is the development of mechanisms for monitoring norm compliance under partial action observability. This paper proposes the reconstruction of unobserved actions to tackle this problem. In particular, we formalize the problem of reconstructing unobserved actions, and propose an information model and algorithms for monitoring norms under partial action observability using two different processes for reconstructing unobserved actions. Our evaluation shows that reconstructing unobserved actions increases significantly the number of norm violations and fulfilments detected.
ISSN:2168-2267
2168-2275
DOI:10.1109/TCYB.2015.2513430