Evaluating Reactive Agents in Partially Observable and Normative Task Environments

• Levi Porto Figueiredo UECE
• Gustavo Augusto Lima de Campos UECE
• Mariela Inês Cortés UECE

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wesaac.2017.33242

Abstract

Humans need laws to regulate their actions. In the same way, when we apply norms in agent societies, we perceive that it tends to increase the performance of the system according to criteria that the designer wants. The proposal is to evaluate the effect that a type of action prohibition rule can have on the performance of simple reactive agents and agents based on models with condition-action rules in partially observable task environments. These agents have as principle to inhibit those rules, in their sets of condition-action rules, which contain some prohibited action as a consequence. The agents demonstrated the ability to understand these specific norms and to avoid carrying out prohibited actions.

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