Norm Enforcement with a Soft Touch: Faster Emergence, Happier Agents

A multiagent system can be viewed as a society of autonomous agents, whose interactions can be effectively regulated via social norms. In general, the norms of a society are not hardcoded but emerge from the agents' interactions. Specifically, how the agents in a society react to each other's behavior and respond to the reactions of others determines which norms emerge in the society. We think of these reactions by an agent to the satisfactory or unsatisfactory behaviors of another agent …

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