DETERMINING COOPERATION IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS WITH CULTURAL TRAITS

Stefan Heinrich, Markus Eberling, Stefan Wermter

2011

Abstract

Achieving cooperation among autonomous and rational agents is still a major challenge. In the past, altruistic cooperation was generally explained through genetic kinship relations. However, the theory of 'cultural kin' is an approach that tries to explain altruism through cultural relatedness. To promote cooperation among autonomous and rational agents, this work transfers the idea of cultural characteristics, which benefits social behaviour, to multiagent systems (MAS). Accordingly, agents are characterised by cultural traits, which they can imitate from their neighbours and are supposed to solve tasks, for which they need the cooperation of other agents in most cases. The interaction of cooperation and cultural trait propagation will be investigated in a theoretical analysis and in an empirical simulation in a particular developed framework. As a novelty, schemata will be analysed that are beyond the well-studied one-to-one interaction.

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Heinrich S., Eberling M. and Wermter S. (2011). DETERMINING COOPERATION IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS WITH CULTURAL TRAITS . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-41-6, pages 173-180. DOI: 10.5220/0003142801730180


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@conference{icaart11,
author={Stefan Heinrich and Markus Eberling and Stefan Wermter},
title={DETERMINING COOPERATION IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS WITH CULTURAL TRAITS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={173-180},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003142801730180},
isbn={978-989-8425-41-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - DETERMINING COOPERATION IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS WITH CULTURAL TRAITS
SN - 978-989-8425-41-6
AU - Heinrich S.
AU - Eberling M.
AU - Wermter S.
PY - 2011
SP - 173
EP - 180
DO - 10.5220/0003142801730180