“Exhibitionists” and “Voyeurs” do it better: A Shared Environment Approach for Flexible Coordination with Tacit Messages


Luca Tummolini, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini

Danny Weyns, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Fabien Michel (eds.)
Environments for Multi-Agent Systems, pages 215–231
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3374
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
February 2005

Coordination between multiple autonomous agents is a major issue for open multi-agent systems. This paper proposes the notion of Behavioural Implicit Communication (BIC) originally devised in human and animal societies as a new and critical coordination mechanism also for artificial agents. BIC is a parasitical form of communication that exploits both some environmental properties and the agents' capacity to interpret their actions. In this paper we abstract from the agents' architecture to focus on the interaction mediated by the environment. Observability of the environment – and in particular of agents' actions – is crucial for implementing BIC-based form of coordination in artificial societies. Accordingly in this paper we introduce an abstract model of environment providing services to enhance observation power of agents, enabling BIC and other form of observation-based coordination. Also, we describe a typology of environments and examples of observation based coordination with and without implicit communication. 

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— authors

Luca Tummolini, Cristiano Castelfranchi, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini

— editors

Danny Weyns, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Fabien Michel

— status

published

— sort

paper in proceedings

— publication date

February 2005

— volume

Environments for Multi-Agent Systems

— series

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence

— volume

3374

— pages

215–231

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— DOI

10.1007/978-3-540-32259-7_11

— ACM

10.1007/978-3-540-32259-7_11

— Scopus

2-s2.0-24144485892

— WoS / ISI

000228360200011

— print ISSN

0302-9743

— online ISSN

1611-3349

— print ISBN

978-3-540-24575-9

— ISBN–10

3-540-24575-8

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1st International Workshop (E4MAS 2004), New York, NY, USA, 19 July 2004. Revised Selected Papers

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