Context Matters: Contextual Value-Based Deliberation in Water Consumption Scenarios
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| author | Oliva-Felipe, Luis Lobo, Maria Inês McKinlay, Jack Dignum, Frank De Vos, Marina Cortés, Ulises Cortés, Atia |
| author_facet | Oliva-Felipe, Luis Lobo, Maria Inês McKinlay, Jack Dignum, Frank De Vos, Marina Cortés, Ulises Cortés, Atia |
| contents | <p>Values and context are important in an agent’s decision-making process. Individuals may prioritise values differently, and changing context can also necessitate different considerations. In this paper, we use Schwartz’s theory of basic human values to define ethical values and introduce a preorder to model an agent’s relative preference among those values. We characterise context using this preorder, which can then be used in socio-technical systems as part of the autonomous agents’ deliberation process. We also define the transition between contexts as shifts in value order. To illustrate our approach, we implement this preorder in a domestic water-consumption scenario featuring two towns whose citizens make daily decisions regarding showering, considering visitors, drought rules, and sports activities. Our results demonstrate how our model can effectively represent value orders and integrate them into agents’ decision-making processes.<br>This approach also allows us to characterise contexts, understand how these contexts affect agents’ behaviour, and assess the impact of shifting contexts. We ob-<br>serve that the value order influences the dynamics of context transitions, making some value orders more prone to shift than others.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Context Matters: Contextual Value-Based Deliberation in Water Consumption Scenarios Oliva-Felipe, Luis Lobo, Maria Inês McKinlay, Jack Dignum, Frank De Vos, Marina Cortés, Ulises Cortés, Atia agent decision-making value-awareness value-based context Artificial Intelligence/ethics <p>Values and context are important in an agent’s decision-making process. Individuals may prioritise values differently, and changing context can also necessitate different considerations. In this paper, we use Schwartz’s theory of basic human values to define ethical values and introduce a preorder to model an agent’s relative preference among those values. We characterise context using this preorder, which can then be used in socio-technical systems as part of the autonomous agents’ deliberation process. We also define the transition between contexts as shifts in value order. To illustrate our approach, we implement this preorder in a domestic water-consumption scenario featuring two towns whose citizens make daily decisions regarding showering, considering visitors, drought rules, and sports activities. Our results demonstrate how our model can effectively represent value orders and integrate them into agents’ decision-making processes.<br>This approach also allows us to characterise contexts, understand how these contexts affect agents’ behaviour, and assess the impact of shifting contexts. We ob-<br>serve that the value order influences the dynamics of context transitions, making some value orders more prone to shift than others.</p> |
| title | Context Matters: Contextual Value-Based Deliberation in Water Consumption Scenarios |
| topic | agent decision-making value-awareness value-based context Artificial Intelligence/ethics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19708958 |