Engineering Awareness in Open Networks
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The document discusses engineering awareness in open networks aimed at self-organised resource allocation through autonomous agents in constrained environments. It explores the applicability of Elinor Ostrom's socio-economic principles to such institutions and examines the success of self-organisation dependent on various factors, including self-awareness. The research contributes to theoretical, experimental, and application-based advancements in AI for managing complex multi-agent systems and energy distribution.
![Governing the Commons [Ostrom, 1990]
institutional rules:
conventionally agreed by affected agents, mutually
understood, monitored and enforced, mutable and nested
within higher-order rules (decisions → action situations)
typical allocation sequence:
(contribute →) demand → allocate → appropriate
system regulated by self-governing agents that ensure
responsible handling of the resource
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![Dynamic Specification Framework [Artikis, 2011]
Norm-governed system specification for multiagent systems
Physical power, institutionalised power, and permission
Obligations, and other complex normative relations
Sanctions and penalties
Roles and actions (communication language)
Protocol stack: object-/meta-/meta-meta-/etc. level protocols
Specification space (DoFs)
Axiomatisation in the Event Calculus
general purpose action language for representing events, and
for reasoning about effects of events
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Engineering Awareness in Open Networks
- 1. Engineering Awareness in Open Networks Julia Schaumeier AWARENESS PhD Forum @ SASO 2012 10 September 2012
- 2. Overview Goal Create institutions for self-organised resource allocation Setting Autonomous, heterogeneous agents in open, embedded and resource-constrained systems exogenous and endogenous events change environment intentional non-compliance and accidental malfunction Tools Ostrom: self-governing commons and evolution of institutions Artikis: dynamic specifications of open agent systems Self-awareness for introspection and evaluation Julia Schaumeier Engineering Awareness in Open Networks 1/9
- 3. Two Research Questions Q1: Is it possible to apply Elinor Ostrom’s socio-economic principles to institutions for self-organised management of open systems in resource-constraint environments? Q2: Is it possible to ensure that the self-organisation is successful? Julia Schaumeier Engineering Awareness in Open Networks 2/9
- 4. Governing the Commons [Ostrom, 1990] institutional rules: conventionally agreed by affected agents, mutually understood, monitored and enforced, mutable and nested within higher-order rules (decisions → action situations) typical allocation sequence: (contribute →) demand → allocate → appropriate system regulated by self-governing agents that ensure responsible handling of the resource Julia Schaumeier Engineering Awareness in Open Networks 3/9
- 5. Dynamic Specification Framework [Artikis, 2011] Norm-governed system specification for multiagent systems Physical power, institutionalised power, and permission Obligations, and other complex normative relations Sanctions and penalties Roles and actions (communication language) Protocol stack: object-/meta-/meta-meta-/etc. level protocols Specification space (DoFs) Axiomatisation in the Event Calculus general purpose action language for representing events, and for reasoning about effects of events Julia Schaumeier Engineering Awareness in Open Networks 4/9
- 6. Levels of Awareness derived from neuroscience and psychology Julia Schaumeier Engineering Awareness in Open Networks 5/9
- 7. Question 1 Is it possible to apply Elinor Ostrom’s socio-economic principles to institutions for self-organised management of open systems in resource-constraint environments? Yes, see SASO 2011 and Awareness Workshop 2011 Specified model uses Artikis’ framework to express Ostrom’s elements of institutions for self-governing commons Meta-protocols in the Event Calculus and notion of institutionalised power implement nested higher-order rules and action situations Experimental testbed Principles typically lead to a sustainable resource and make systems more enduring Principles have to be congruent with agents’ behaviour and environment Self-organisation important, no ‘one size fits all’ strategy Julia Schaumeier Engineering Awareness in Open Networks 6/9
- 8. Question 2 Is it possible to ensure that the self-organisation is successful? Problem: implementation of principles requires careful design and modification to be congruent with current state of environment – not all developments anticipatable in design phase Hypothesis: Q2 is feasible using notions of self-awareness (Planned) experimental testbed To show what level of self-awareness keeps balance between costs and movement in specification space (all rules/roles) depending on population profile Example: Fairness as social (self-)evaluation measure level of predictive self-awareness subjective a priori incentive for optimising collective welfare objective a posteriori outcome metric ‘real world’ problem: smarter infrastructure management, like smart grids Julia Schaumeier Engineering Awareness in Open Networks 7/9
- 9. Contributions Theoretical AI: investigation of logical and computational foundations of self-organising and self-aware norm-governed multi-agent systems Experimental AI: development of a testbed for animating institutions for logic-based electronic systems Application of AI: instantiation of abstract model for management of energy distribution Julia Schaumeier Engineering Awareness in Open Networks 8/9
- 10. Thank you! Julia Schaumeier Engineering Awareness in Open Networks 9/9