Compliance requires communication and cooperation

Communication and Cooperation

Communication plays a vital role in the organization and operation of biological, computational, economic, and social systems. Agents often base their behavior on the signals they receive from others and also recognize the importance of the signals they send. Here we develop a framework for analyzing the emergence of communication in an adaptive system. The framework enables the study of a syst...

Communication and Cooperation

The authors focus on trust games in the context of two aspects of communication: content (relevant vs. irrelevant communication) and media-richness (face to face, FtF, vs. computer-mediated communication, CMC). In the trust game they studied, there are two players: first-mover and second-mover. The first-mover received 6$ and she could decide to send any discrete amount of dollars to the second...

Cooperation via Indirect Communication

Evolution of indirect communication between two embodied agents is the research topic addressed in this thesis. Indirect communication is a niche that should be more common in intelligent robotics as it is essential in most areas where humans are present. Indirect communication is robust and can serve as either a supporting tool or a substitute for other means of communication. Evolutionary app...

Cooperation without Communication

Intelligent agents must be able to interact even without the benefit of communication. In this paper we examine various constraints on the actions of agents in such situations and discuss the effects of these constraints on their derived utility. In particular, we define and analyze basic raiionaliiy; we consider various assumptions about independence; and we demonstrate the advantages of exten...

Dissociating Guilt- and Inequity-Aversion in Cooperation and Norm Compliance.