Incentivising Monitoring in Open Normative Systems

Authors: Natasha Alechina, Joseph Halpern, Ian Kash, Brian Logan

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical We present an approach to incentivising monitoring for norm violations in open multi-agent systems such as Wikipedia. In such systems, there is no crisp definition of a norm violation; rather, it is a matter of judgement whether an agent s behaviour conforms to generally accepted standards of behaviour. Agents may legitimately disagree about borderline cases. Using ideas from scrip systems and peer prediction, we show how to design a mechanism that incentivises agents to monitor each other s behaviour for norm violations. The mechanism keeps the probability of undetected violations (submissions that the majority of the community would consider not conforming to standards) low, and is robust against collusion by the monitoring agents.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration Natasha Alechina University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK nza@cs.nott.ac.uk Joseph Y. Halpern Cornell University Ithaca, USA halpern@cornell.edu Ian A. Kash Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK iankash@microsoft.com Brian Logan University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK bsl@cs.nott.ac.uk
Pseudocode No The paper describes theoretical mechanisms and models, but it does not include any structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper is theoretical and does not mention providing open-source code for its described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper describes a theoretical model and does not involve training on a dataset. No dataset information or access is provided.
Dataset Splits No The paper presents theoretical work and does not perform empirical validation with dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not describe any experimental setup or the hardware used for it.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not mention specific software dependencies or version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper focuses on theoretical model design and analysis. It does not include an experimental setup with hyperparameters or training configurations.