Towards a Framework for Predicting Opportunism in Multi-agent Systems

Publication date

2017

Authors

Luo, J.-J.ISNI 0000000524132021
Meyer, John-JulesISNI 0000000116521183
Knobbout, M.ISNI 0000000493228943

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taverne

Abstract

Opportunism is a behavior that takes advantage of knowledge asymmetry and results in promoting agents' own value and demoting others' value. We propose a framework to reason about agents' opportunistic propensity and characterize the situation where agents will perform opportunistic behavior.

Keywords

decision theory, logic, opportunism, propensity, reasoning, Taverne

Citation

Luo, J, Meyer, J-J & Knobbout, M 2017, Towards a Framework for Predicting Opportunism in Multi-agent Systems. in Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. AAMAS '17, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, pp. 1616-1618. https://doi.org/10.5555/3091125.3091381