An Action Selection Method Using Degree of Cooperation in a Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning System

Authors
Masanori Kawamura, Kunikazu Kobayashi
Corresponding Author
Masanori Kawamura
Available Online 15 December 2014.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2014.1.3.13How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Multi-agent system, Reinforcement leaning, Cooperative action, Dividual, Degree of cooperation
Abstract
In recent years, a concept of a dividual is proposed by a Japanese novelist to interact properly with another person. To construct a model of the dividual, the degree of cooperation is assigned to the corresponding dividual. By introducing the degree of cooperation into a multi-agent system, we evaluate what kind of changes appears in the agent behavior. In addition, we propose an action selection method by introducing the degree of cooperation into the soft-max method in a multi-agent system. Using the proposed method, we confirm whether the cooperative action is promoted or suppressed through computer simulations.

Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).