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The Dutch eat at 5: 30 pm: shared strategies for agent reasoning

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Authors:

Amineh Ghobani; Huib Aldewereld; Virginia Dignum; Pablo Noriega

Source:

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Volume 3, Valencia, Spain, p.1421-1422 (2012)

Keywords:

shared strategies; norms; multi-agent systems

Abstract:

In the Netherlands, almost all people have dinner around 5:30pm. As a foreigner in that country, it is almost impossible to plan a (working) meeting around this time, which would be a `normal' time in many other countries. On the other hand, having dinner that early is not an obligation. No one will be o fended or would even care if you choose to eat later. This is an example of a shared strategy, i.e. an institutional arrangement where diff erent actors have the intention of performing the same task at a certain time or setting. InMAS research, shared strategies can be a new way of expressing conventions that cannot easily be fitted into norms, individual plans or collective intentions, while sharing some elements with all of these.

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