Title

The Education Of A Crook: Reinforcement Learning In Social-Cultural Settings

Keywords

Multi-agents; Simulation; Social-cultural

Abstract

The ability to manipulate social and cultural values in order to achieve one's own goals is a hard-to-teach but profitable skill. In this paper we represent a complex social scenario, the Spanish Steps flower selling scam, using a social calculus framework based on culture sanctioned social metrics (CSSMs) and concrete beliefs (CBs). Then, we show how a crooked seller can learn a profitable strategy through reinforcement learning. Although the search space defined by the social calculus is large, we found that function approximation based Q-learning allows us to successfully learn efficient strategies in a relatively small number of runs. The learned strategy allows the seller to manipulate an unprepared tourist's social values of politeness and dignity, as well as his perception of the peers and crowds opinion. This allows the seller to manipulate some of his opponents to act against their own interests by purchasing an overpriced flower while well-knowing that they are being cheated.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014

Volume

2

Number of Pages

1397-1398

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84911445701 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84911445701

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