Artificial social systems
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Abstract
An artificial social system is a set of restrictions on agents' behaviors in a multiagent environment. Its role is to allow agents to coexist in a shared environment and pursue their respective goals in the presence of other agents. This paper argues that artificial social systems exist in practically every multi-agent system, and play a major role in the performance and effectiveness of the agents. We propose artificial social systems as an explicit and formal object of study, and investigate several basic issues that arise in their design. Keywords: Social Laws, Multi-Agent Systems, Off-Line Design This work was supported in part by the US-Israel Binational Foundation. The work of the first author was supported by an Alon Fellowship, and by a Helen and Marcus Kimmelman Career Development Chair. The second author was supported in part by an Eshkol Fellowship of the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, and later by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Part of the resea...