An agent who operates in an environment with poor knowledge behaves sub-optimally. If a group of other agents acts in the same environment it should be useful to exploit information about their actions in order to improve the single agent's knowledge and behavior. The problem can be solved by providing knowledge to the agent or learning capabilities, but in some domains the knowledge description can be very hard and learning from behavior observations requires a more complex agent. Our approach is to make the agent behave as a member of the group would do, namely as it implicitly belong to the same "culture", without extra-effort or direct interaction. We introduce the concept of Implicit Culture and propose a general architecture for Systems for Implicit Culture Support. The main component takes as input the current scene an agent faces and a set of past actions performed by the group and suggests actions coherently. These "cultural actions" are representative of the behavior of the group's members and suggested in an implicit way, for the process does not require to be known by the agents. Finally, we show how some existing systems can be considered as instances of our architecture and consider the related work
Systems for Implicit Culture Support
Blanzieri, Enrico;
2000-01-01
Abstract
An agent who operates in an environment with poor knowledge behaves sub-optimally. If a group of other agents acts in the same environment it should be useful to exploit information about their actions in order to improve the single agent's knowledge and behavior. The problem can be solved by providing knowledge to the agent or learning capabilities, but in some domains the knowledge description can be very hard and learning from behavior observations requires a more complex agent. Our approach is to make the agent behave as a member of the group would do, namely as it implicitly belong to the same "culture", without extra-effort or direct interaction. We introduce the concept of Implicit Culture and propose a general architecture for Systems for Implicit Culture Support. The main component takes as input the current scene an agent faces and a set of past actions performed by the group and suggests actions coherently. These "cultural actions" are representative of the behavior of the group's members and suggested in an implicit way, for the process does not require to be known by the agents. Finally, we show how some existing systems can be considered as instances of our architecture and consider the related workI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
