EMOTION AS AN ENABLER OF CO-OPERATION

Martyn Lloyd-Kelly, Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon

2012

Abstract

We investigate the emergence of co-operation through emotions. We use agents playing an iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma game, and show how the emotions of gratitude and anger enable co-operation to emerge as a response to the emotional state of the agents without reference to payoffs or history. We investigate the effect of different thresholds for these emotions to change behaviour on individual performance and system scores.

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Lloyd-Kelly M., Atkinson K. and Bench-Capon T. (2012). EMOTION AS AN ENABLER OF CO-OPERATION . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-96-6, pages 164-169. DOI: 10.5220/0003730101640169


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart12,
author={Martyn Lloyd-Kelly and Katie Atkinson and Trevor Bench-Capon},
title={EMOTION AS AN ENABLER OF CO-OPERATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={164-169},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003730101640169},
isbn={978-989-8425-96-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - EMOTION AS AN ENABLER OF CO-OPERATION
SN - 978-989-8425-96-6
AU - Lloyd-Kelly M.
AU - Atkinson K.
AU - Bench-Capon T.
PY - 2012
SP - 164
EP - 169
DO - 10.5220/0003730101640169