Modeling sincerity behaviour in software agent environment
The growth of autonomous products shows that this technology is gradually becoming a part of human life. They provide many benefits for humans in assisting the performance and management of tasks. Software agent technology is one that manifests the autonomous technology. As an autonomous product,...
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2023
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| Summary: | The growth of autonomous products shows that this technology is gradually becoming a part
of human life. They provide many benefits for humans in assisting the performance and
management of tasks. Software agent technology is one that manifests the autonomous
technology. As an autonomous product, the technology has the ability to animate rational agents
to cooperate and work in teams. However, due to the inherent rationality of software agent
systems, the agents maintain the selfish attitude which becomes a subject for thought to improve
efficiency. One way is to enable agents to help its teammate that has the same goal. In this
thesis, we study the attempt to instill ethical human behaviour in a software agent environment
in order to improve the efficiency. Sincerity is one of the human behaviours that can be instilled
in a software agent environment. Studies have shown that this human ethical behaviour has
proven its benefits to human organizations. The instilling of sincerity in a software agent
environment may help to promote teamwork in an agent community. Consequently, this
research is focused on the study of instilling human sincerity in a software agent behaviour.
The study involves conducting a survey to identify the factors related to human sincerity while
performing tasks. We use the survey results to design the agent sincerity rules. The dynamic
characteristic is one of the elements included in modelling the agent sincerity behaviour. For
this purpose, we create three levels of agent sincerity: less sincere, moderate sincere and most
sincere. These levels determine how an agent responds to its community while performing its
tasks and how its sincerity level changes according to the merit points. In order to avoid
imbalance of work burden between the agents, this study designs a Work Manager to evaluate
the capability of agent in receiving and handling new tasks. An agent is not allowed to take up
a new task if it does not fulfil the criteria of the Work Manager evaluation although it is at its
most sincere level. The architecture of agent sincerity environment, the BDI of sincere agent
and the flow of agent communications are the other parts that support the implementation of
sincerity behaviour in the agent environment. We validate the model of agent sincerity
behaviour by simulating the implementation of sincere agent behaviour using the JADE
platform. The results of the simulation show that the instilling of sincerity in an agent
environment reduces the selfish behaviour and increases the teamwork among the agents in the
community. Incidentally, by having sincerity behaviour in their environment, it is found out
that the productivity of agents are also improved. |
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