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Understanding the Role of Values and Norms in Practical Reasoning

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Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies (EUMAS 2020, AT 2020)

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Abstract

Mistrust poses a significant threat to the widespread adoption of intelligent agents. Guarantees about the behaviour of intelligent systems could help foster trust. In this paper, we investigate mechanisms to integrate value-based reasoning in practical reasoning as a way to ensure that agents actions align not only with society norms but also with user’s values. In particular, we expand a normative BDI agent architecture with an explicit representation of values.

This work was supported by UK Research and Innovation (EP/S023356/1), in the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence; and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R033188/1).

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Notes

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    Neither normative nor practical reasoning is the focus of this paper. We use a simple normative definition to illustrate the interplay between norms and values. For a detailed description of normative and practical reasoning see [6] and [3], respectively.

  2. 2.

    We are using a subset of the ten basic values for brevity.

  3. 3.

    Depending on the particular domain of application, a constraint to ensure that one of \(promote(v, \gamma , 0)\) or \(demote(v, \gamma , 0)\) holds could be added to the V context.

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    Jazon Szabo, Jose M. Such & Natalia Criado

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Szabo, J., Such, J.M., Criado, N. (2020). Understanding the Role of Values and Norms in Practical Reasoning. In: Bassiliades, N., Chalkiadakis, G., de Jonge, D. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies. EUMAS AT 2020 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12520. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66412-1_27

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