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Norms for DLP Agents Working in a Warehouse Scenario

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Engineering of Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2001)

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We have studied the development of multi-agents that must collaborate within their working environment according to a set of norms. The agents used are defined and implemented in dynamic logic programming (DLP), using the LUPS knowledge updating system developed in XSB. The aim of this study is to experimentally find out how norms imposed on agents can lead to an acceptable and robust collective behavior. Such a normative generated behavior is more natural in an open environment where new agents may enter the world with expectation of social acceptance. The experiments carried out have shown where we have flaws in the initial definition of the norms. We have been able to learn how to modify the norms in order to improve the social behavior of the group of agents in the warehouse scenario.c

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Baritiu 28, RO-3400, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Ioan Alfred Letia, Florin Craciun & Zoltan Köpe

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  1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Intelligent Manufacturing and Business Processes Computer and Automation Research Institute, Kende utca 13-17, 1111, Budapest, Hungary

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    Moonis Ali

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Letia, I.A., Craciun, F., Köpe, Z. (2001). Norms for DLP Agents Working in a Warehouse Scenario. In: Monostori, L., Váncza, J., Ali, M. (eds) Engineering of Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2070. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45517-5_80

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