Empathic Autonomous Agents

Multi-Agent Systems

“…In this section, we elaborate on the empathic agent core concepts as initially sketched out in [13]. A set of interacting empathic agents can be described as follows:…”

“…-Develop engineering-oriented abstractions for empathic agents, possibly following a previously introduced architecture proposal [13]. While further extending Jason can facilitate scientific applications and re-use, providing a minimally invasive library or framework for a general-purpose programming language could help introduce the concept to the software engineering mainstream.…”

“…Emerging research highlights these challenges and suggests the development of new multi-agent system concepts to address the problem ( [17], [12]). In a recent publication, we outlined the basic concepts of empathic agents [13], based on an established definition of empathy as the ability to "simulate another's situated psychological states, while maintaining clear self-other differentiation" [8] 1 . Our empathic agent is utility-based but additionally uses acceptability rules to avoid conflicts with agents that act in its environment.…”

“…In Example 2, we illustrate an empathic agent argumentation scenario, in which grounded semantics are overly strict 13. For the sake of simplicity, we use a wild card ( * ) to denote that the acceptability rule applies no matter which preference the mitigator agent has.…”

A BDI Empathic Agent Model Based on a Multidimensional Cross-Cultural Emotion Representation

“…Despite the advantages provided by a well-known language such as AgentSpeak, there are very few proposals that use it when defining empathic agents. In [113], an empathic agent model based on AgentSpeak is presented for the resolution of conflicts of interest in interactions between agents. However, this approach focuses on utility-based functions to find solutions that are mutually acceptable, but no affective characteristic of the agents is considered in the utility functions.…”