DocumentCode :
3102412
Title :
Mechanisms for Cooperative Behaviour in Agent Institutions
Author :
Purvis, Martin ; Savarimuthu, S. ; de Oliveira, Mauricio ; Purvis, Martin
Author_Institution :
Inf. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Otago, Dunedin
fYear :
2006
fDate :
18-22 Dec. 2006
Firstpage :
121
Lastpage :
124
Abstract :
Our approach is described for maintaining sustainable cooperative behaviour in agent-based peer-to-peer systems whose environments are organized into agent institutional societies. Instead of expelling uncooperative society members, our approach considers institutional mechanisms that attempt to encourage cooperative behaviour among society members in order to maintain satisfactory operational performance of the institution. This is accomplished by- dividing the society into subgroups, each of which is managed by a special monitor agent. The subgroup monitor agents help keep track of member agent reputations and manage the associated tags for each of the agents in their subgroup. Some experimental results are presented describing how these mechanisms operate.
Keywords :
groupware; peer-to-peer computing; software agents; agent institutions; agent-based peer-to-peer systems; cooperative behaviour mechanisms; institutional mechanisms; Application software; Autonomous agents; Centralized control; Control systems; History; Information science; Monitoring; Ontologies; Peer to peer computing; Software agents;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Agent Technology, 2006. IAT '06. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2748-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IAT.2006.88
Filename :
4052908
Link To Document :
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