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Experimental Comparison of Rational Choice Theory, Norm and Rights Based Multi Agent Systems

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Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling (ER 2005)

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As utility calculus cannot account for an important part of agents’ behaviour in Multi-Agent Systems, researchers have progressively adopted a more normative approach. Unfortunately, social laws have turned out to be too restrictive in real-life domains where autonomous agents’ activity cannot be completely specified in advance. The idea of Rights is a halfway concept between anarchic and off-line constrained interaction. Rights improve coordination and facilitate social action in Multi-Agent domains, they allow agents enough freedom, and at the same time constrain them (prohibiting specific actions). So far rights have not been tested or proven experimentally. We are comparing experimentally the three mentioned interaction architectures in the domain of agent-based traffic simulation.

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  1. Department of Computing, City University, London, EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom

    Peter Kristoffersson & Eduardo Alonso

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  1. Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and INT, France

    Jacky Akoka

  2. Information Systems Department, Brigham Young Univeristy, 84602, Provo, Utah, U.S.A.

    Stephen W. Liddle

  3. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  4. University College, Dublin, Ireland

    Michela Bertolotto

  5. CEDRIC-CNAM and ESSEC,  

    Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau

  6. Infolab, Tilburg University, PO Box 90158, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Willem-Jan van den Heuvel

  7. ISYS- Information Systems Research Unit, IAG-Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Manuel Kolp

  8. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Juan Trujillo

  9. Institute for Applied Informatics, Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria

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Kristoffersson, P., Alonso, E. (2005). Experimental Comparison of Rational Choice Theory, Norm and Rights Based Multi Agent Systems. In: Akoka, J., et al. Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3770. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11568346_20

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