Institutional Robotics and Norms in Multi-agent Systems

Meta-norms and Artificial Emotional Intelligence in Affective Computing

Andrés García-Camino — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:58:59 +0000

The field of Affective Computing has achieved great advances in Artificial Emotional Intelligence, the artificial counterpart of Emotional Intelligence [1]. Reacting emotionally according to the human emotions perceived through observation and dialog has been achieved. However, there are two key points that, to the best of my knowledge, these proposals are ignoring: Multi-Human Multi-Computer Interaction: Sometimes [...]

On the Complexity of Making Decisions using Trust and Reputation Models

Andrés García-Camino — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:14:24 +0000

Coordination under the assumption of sharing information about Trust and Reputation might be formalised as a Interactive Partial Observable Markov Decision Process (I-POMDP). “I-POMDPs generalize POMDPs to handle the presence of, and interaction with, other agents. This is done by including the types of the other agents into the state space and then expressing a belief [...]

The Role of Meta-Norms in Coordination

Andrés García-Camino — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:07:07 +0000

Decentralised coordination under partial observability (formalised as Decentralised Partial Observable Markov Decision Process (Dec-POMDP)) is proven to be computationally intractable [1]. Although increasing the number of assumptions such problems may be solved even in polynomial time [1], norms may reduce both the (valid) action and (valid) state space thus reducing convergence time of such algorithms. Thus, not [...]

Institutional Robotics

Andrés García-Camino — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:50:19 +0000

Institutional Robotics is a new view of an old topic. The idea that robots may be regulated by laws (or norms) was extended by Isaac Asimov’ sci-fi books in the mid of 20th century. In the 90s, Philosophy Professor John Searle contributed with the idea of Social Reality, i.e. there exist brute facts, as the height [...]

Importance by examples

Andrés García-Camino — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:51:47 +0000

In this post I remark the importance of Institutional Robotics giving some examples.

The P2P Matrix for Robots

Andrés García-Camino — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:27:34 +0000

In order to explain Institutional Robotics in plain English, I will use the movie "The Matrix". [...]

Meta-Norms in Institutional Robotics

Andrés García-Camino — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:17:12 +0000

Norms tend to get obsolete so we need a regulated mechanism to create and modify norms. Thus, we will use meta-norms to regulate how to regulate robots.

Meta-norms to regulate agreements resulting from negotiation

Andrés García-Camino — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:49:03 +0000

Recently, a lot of effort is being made to research “agreement technologies”. As (almost) everything may be represented and implemented by semantic rules, one may call them “semantic technologies”. However, it is not very specific as we cannot give meaning to everything in short term. Then, accepting the specific name, we accept the research is [...]

Why modalities used in standard deontic logic are not enough.

Andrés García-Camino — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:08:02 +0000

Deontic Modalities do not specify norm enforcement. In this post I propose new deontic modalities in the form of computational rules.

Applications of Institutional Robotics

Andrés García-Camino — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:32:14 +0000

The goal of this post is to find better applications for Institutional Robotics. I present some of them and I will be updating the list. Please feel free to comment and increase this list. All your contributions will be credited.