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Social Instruments for Convention Emergence

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Authors:

Daniel Villatoro; Sandip Sen; Jordi Sabater-Mir

Source:

10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), Volume 3, Taipei. Taiwan, p.1161-1162 (2011)

ISBN:

978-0-9826571-5-7

Abstract:

In this paper we present the notion of Social Instruments as a set
of mechanisms that facilitate the emergence of norms from repeated
interactions between members of a society. Specifically, we focus on
two social instruments: rewiring and observation. Our main goal is
to provide agents with tools that allow them to leverage their
social network of interactions when effectively addressing
coordination and learning problems, paying special attention to
dissolving meta\-stable subconventions. Finally, we present a more
sophisticated social instrument (observation + rewiring)
for robust resolution of \emph{subconventions}, which works dissolving Self-Reinforcing Substructures (SRS) in the social
network.

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