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
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84911445701 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84911445701
STARS Citation
Bhatia, Taranjeet Singh; Khan, Saad Ahmad; and Bölöni, Ladislau, "The Education Of A Crook: Reinforcement Learning In Social-Cultural Settings" (2014). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 9169.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/9169