Understanding Effects of Norms and Policies on the Robustness, Liveness, and Resilience of Systems - July 2016

Public Audience
Purpose: To highlight project progress. Information is generally at a higher level which is accessible to the interested public. All information contained in the report (regions 1-3) is a Government Deliverable/CDRL.

PI(s):  Emily Berglund, Jon Doyle, Munindar Singh
Researchers:  Hongying Du, Nirav Ajmeri

HARD PROBLEM(S) ADDRESSED

• Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration - Norms provide a standard of correctness for collaborative behavior, with respect to which policies of the participants can be evaluated individually or in groups.
• Resilient Architectures - The study of robustness and resilience of systems modeled in terms of norms would provide a basis for understanding resilient social architectures.

PUBLICATIONS

• Mehdi Mashayekhi, Hongying Du, George F. List, and Munindar P. Singh. “Silk: A Simulation Study of Regulating Open Normative Multiagent Systems.” Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). New York: IJCAI, July 2016, 7 pages. To appear.

ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• We began to investigate a new domain involving the application of norms in cybersecurity, specifically, of software development in projects involving two or more developers.
• We continued to study the problem of norm-based regulation in sociotechnical systems where the social participants can exercise some autonomy but where some decisions are precluded by the underlying technical elements. The extensions pertain to dynamism in the payoffs and a more realistic notion of fairness.