RI: Small: Principles of Normative Multiagent Systems for Decentralized Applications

RI：小型：去中心化应用的规范多智能体系统原则

• 批准号: 1908374
• 负责人: Munindar Singh
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1908374&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RI; Small; Principles; Normative; Multiagent

Emerging technologies such as blockchain and the Internet of Things offer opportunities for multiple autonomous parties (people or organizations) to collaborate in new ways that respect everyone's interests. This consideration applies as well to building software applications involving multiple agents, however our ways of building these software applications have not kept up with these opportunities. Most current approaches focus on data and control from the unitary perspective of a single organization. This project seeks to overcome two conceptual challenges in multiagent system design: over-constrained interactions that interfere with participants' autonomy, and the characterization of interactions in a manner that is not meaningful to humans. This project, dubbed Mia, aims to enable innovative applications that promote users' autonomy with anticipated benefits in the quality of life for users as well as gains in efficiency for users and enterprises. In particular, enabling decentralization without compromising on rigor could lead to new ways of realizing scientific and business interactions and thereby provide new pathways for value generation in society. This project seeks to support interoperation of autonomous parties for decentralized applications by investigating theoretical models and programming techniques for multiagent systems. The Mia framework seeks to model interactions between autonomous parties via communication protocols that specify messages in support of fully decentralized enactments. First, Mia will investigate ways to specify multiagent protocols such that a protocol can be effectively enacted by decentralized participants, each acting autonomously based on its local knowledge and private decision making, and one participant can verify the compliance of another participant with respect to the protocol. Second, Mia will investigate how autonomous parties may achieve alignment on their joint activities through a formalization of norms modeled as directed deontic constructs. Third, Mia will investigate ways in which to elicit stakeholder requirements that respects their autonomy; mine norms from logged interactions; and systematically induce flexible protocols from a model formulated in terms of norms.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

区块链和物联网等新兴技术为多个自治政党(个人或组织)提供了以尊重每个人利益的新方式进行合作的机会。这一考虑也适用于构建涉及多个代理的软件应用程序，但是我们构建这些软件应用程序的方式没有跟上这些机会。大多数当前的方法侧重于从单一组织的统一角度进行数据和控制。这个项目试图克服多智能体系统设计中的两个概念性挑战：干扰参与者自主性的过度约束的交互，以及以对人类没有意义的方式描述交互。该项目名为Mia，旨在实现创新的应用程序，促进用户的自主性，为用户的生活质量带来预期的好处，并提高用户和企业的效率。特别是，在不影响严谨性的情况下实现权力下放可以带来实现科学和商业互动的新方法，从而为社会创造价值提供新的途径。这个项目试图通过研究多智能体系统的理论模型和编程技术来支持自治各方之间的互操作，以实现分散的应用。MIA框架寻求通过通信协议模拟自治缔约方之间的互动，这些通信协议规定了支持完全分散的法令的信息。首先，MIA将研究如何指定多代理协议，以便分散的参与者可以有效地制定协议，每个参与者根据其本地知识和私人决策自主行动，一个参与者可以验证另一个参与者对该协议的遵守情况。其次，MIA将调查自治政党如何通过将规范形式化建模为指导道义结构来实现其联合活动的一致。第三，MIA将研究如何引出尊重其自主性的利益相关者要求；从记录的交互中挖掘规范；并从规范方面制定的模型系统地归纳出灵活的协议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Representing and Determining Argumentative Relevance in Online Discussions: A General Approach

• DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22146
• 发表时间: 2023-06
• 作者: Zhen Guo;Munindar P. Singh

Accountability as a Foundation for Requirements in Sociotechnical Systems

责任作为社会技术系统要求的基础

• DOI: 10.1109/mic.2021.3106835
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: IEEE Internet Computing
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Chopra A

Enhancing Creativity as Innovation via Asynchronous Crowdwork

• DOI: 10.1145/3501247.3531555
• 发表时间: 2022-06
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022
• 作者: Pradeep K. Murukannaiah

Nova : Value-based Negotiation of Norms

Nova：基于价值的规范谈判

• DOI: 10.1145/3465054
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Aydoğan, Reyhan;Kafali, Özgür;Arslan, Furkan;Jonker, Catholijn M.;Singh, Munindar P.
• 通讯作者: Singh, Munindar P.

Reimagining Ride Sharing: Efficient, Equitable, Sustainable Public Microtransit

• DOI: 10.1109/mic.2020.3018038
• 发表时间: 2020-09
• 期刊: IEEE Internet Computing
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Eleni Bardaka;L. Hajibabai;Munindar P. Singh;Munindar P. Singh;Pradeep K. Murukannaiah