Should I trust my teammates? An experiment in heuristic multiagent reinforcement learning

Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi, Ramón López de Mántaras

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[Trust and reputation are concepts that have been traditionally studied in domains such as electronic markets, e-commerce, game theory and bibliometrics, among others. More recently, researchers started to investigate the benefits of using these concepts in multi-robot domains: when one robot has to decide if it should cooperatewith another one to accomplish a task, should the trust in the other be taken into account? This paper proposes the use of a trust model to define when one agent can take an action that depends on other agents of his team. To implement this idea, a Heuristic Multiagent Reinforcement Learning algorithm is modified to take into account the trust in the other agents, before selecting an action that depends on them. Simulations were made in a robot soccer domain, which extends a very well known one proposed by Littman by expanding its size, the number of agents and by using heterogeneous agents. Based on the results it is possible to show the performance of a team of agents can be improved even when using very simple trust models.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2009 IJCAI Workshop on Grand Challenges for Reasoning from Experiences (IJCAI-09), 11 July 2009, Pasadena, California
    PublisherRobert Gordon University
    Pages11-15
    Number of pages5
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    EventIJCAI Workshop on Grand Challenges for Reasoning from Experiences -
    Duration: 11 Jul 2009 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceIJCAI Workshop on Grand Challenges for Reasoning from Experiences
    Period11/07/09 → …

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