Distributed Theory of Mind in Multi-Agent Systems

Heitor Henrique da Silva, Michele Rocha, Guilherme Trajano, Analúcia Schiaffino Morales, Stefan Sarkadi, Alison R. Panisson

2024

Abstract

Theory of Mind is a concept from developmental psychology which elucidates how humans mentalise. More specifically, it describes how humans ascribe mental attitudes to others and how they reason about these mental attitudes. In the area of Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Mind serves as a fundamental pillar in the design of intelligent artificial agents that are supposed to coexist with humans within a hybrid society. Having the ability to mentalise, these artificial agents could potentially exhibit a range of advanced capabilities that underlie meaningful communication, including empathy and the capacity to better understanding the meaning behind the utterances others make. In this paper, we propose a distributed theory of mind approach in multi-agent systems, in which agents and human users share evidence to reach more supported conclusions about each other’s mental attitudes. We demonstrate our approach in a scenario of stress detection, in which personal agents infer whether their users are stressed or not according to the distributed theory of mind approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

da Silva H., Rocha M., Trajano G., Morales A., Sarkadi S. and Panisson A. (2024). Distributed Theory of Mind in Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: EAA; ISBN 978-989-758-680-4, SciTePress, pages 451-460. DOI: 10.5220/0012563400003636

in Bibtex Style

@conference{eaa24,
author={Heitor Henrique da Silva and Michele Rocha and Guilherme Trajano and Analúcia Schiaffino Morales and Stefan Sarkadi and Alison R. Panisson},
title={Distributed Theory of Mind in Multi-Agent Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: EAA},
year={2024},
pages={451-460},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012563400003636},
isbn={978-989-758-680-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: EAA
TI - Distributed Theory of Mind in Multi-Agent Systems
SN - 978-989-758-680-4
AU - da Silva H.
AU - Rocha M.
AU - Trajano G.
AU - Morales A.
AU - Sarkadi S.
AU - Panisson A.
PY - 2024
SP - 451
EP - 460
DO - 10.5220/0012563400003636
PB - SciTePress