C. Castelfranchi et al., PERSONALITY-TRAITS AND SOCIAL-ATTITUDES IN MULTIAGENT COOPERATION, Applied artificial intelligence, 12(7-8), 1998, pp. 649-675
In this article, we discuss the meaning of personality and its role in
socially intelligent multiagent systems. After examining the reasons
behind the current trend toward endowing software agents with personal
ity, we introduce our notion of personality as a combination of traits
and attitudes. We characterize what we consider to be two basic eleme
nts of any cooperation activity (delegation and help), and we show how
they can be diversified in relation to the agent's level of autonomy
and cooperativeness. We then describe how we formalize these forms of
delegation and help, in GOLEM, a multiagent cooperation testbed, and w
e outline how these tl airs and attitudes can be organized into reason
able personalities and interesting interactive situations. Finally, we
show how, in GOLEM, these traits and attitudes ale involved in decidi
ng what to do proactively or in response to other agents' social actio
n, and in reasoning about other agents' minds.