Exchanges of Services Based on Piaget's theory of Social Exchanges Using a BDI-Fuzzy Agent Model

Abstract

Piaget's theory of social exchanges has been used as the basis for the analysis of interactions in Multiagent Systems, allowing the modeling of interactions as services exchange processes between pairs of agents, followed by the evaluation of those services by the agents involved, producing the so-called social exchange values. The purpose of this work is to develop a BDIFuzzy agent model for the Jason platform, with abilities to assess qualitatively, subjectively the social exchanges values originated in the provision and in the receipt of non-economic services, based on Piaget's theory of social exchanges. An application to the simulation of exchange processes in a social organization, namely, the urban vegetable garden San Jerónimo (Seville, Spain) is presented.