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Towards a Social Level Characterisation of Socially Responsible Agents

Towards a Social Level Characterisation of Socially Responsible Agents
Towards a Social Level Characterisation of Socially Responsible Agents
This paper presents a high-level framework for analysing and designing intelligent agents. The framework’s key abstraction mechanism is a new computer level called the Social Level. The Social Level sits immediately above the Knowledge Level, as defined by Allen Newell, and is concerned with the inherently social aspects of multiple agent systems. To illustrate the working of this framework, an important new class of agent is identified and then specified. Socially responsible agents retain their local autonomy but still draw from, and provide resources to, the larger community. Through empirical evaluation, it is shown that such agents produce both good system-wide performance and good individual performance.
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Jennings, N. R.
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Campos, J. R.
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Jennings, N. R.
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Campos, J. R.
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Jennings, N. R. and Campos, J. R. (1997) Towards a Social Level Characterisation of Socially Responsible Agents. IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering, 144 (1), 11-25.

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This paper presents a high-level framework for analysing and designing intelligent agents. The framework’s key abstraction mechanism is a new computer level called the Social Level. The Social Level sits immediately above the Knowledge Level, as defined by Allen Newell, and is concerned with the inherently social aspects of multiple agent systems. To illustrate the working of this framework, an important new class of agent is identified and then specified. Socially responsible agents retain their local autonomy but still draw from, and provide resources to, the larger community. Through empirical evaluation, it is shown that such agents produce both good system-wide performance and good individual performance.

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Published date: 1997
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 252111
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/252111
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Date deposited: 13 Dec 1999
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 05:15

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Author: N. R. Jennings
Author: J. R. Campos

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