Can Poverty Be Reduced by Acting on Discrimination? An Agent-based Model for Policy Making

1 code implementation • 3 Mar 2024 • Alba Aguilera, Nieves Montes, Georgina Curto, Carles Sierra, Nardine Osman

We classify policies as discriminatory or non-discriminatory against the poor, with the support of specialized NGOs, and we observe the results in the AABM in terms of the impact on wealth inequality.

Value Engineering for Autonomous Agents

no code implementations • 17 Feb 2023 • Nieves Montes, Nardine Osman, Carles Sierra, Marija Slavkovik

We argue that this type of normative reasoning, where agents are endowed with an understanding of norms' moral implications, leads to value-awareness in autonomous agents.

Ethics

A Computational Model of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

1 code implementation • 27 May 2021 • Nieves Montes

The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework is a conceptual toolbox put forward by Elinor Ostrom and colleagues in an effort to identify and delineate the universal common variables that structure the immense variety of human interactions.