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Impact of Different Belief Facets on Agents’ Decision—A Refined Cognitive Architecture to Model the Interaction Between Organisations’ Institutional Characteristics and Agents’ Behaviour

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This paper presents a conceptual refinement of agent cognitive architecture inspired from the beliefs-desires-intentions (BDI) and the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) models, with an emphasis on different belief facets. This enables us to investigate the impact of personality and the way that an agent weights its internal beliefs and social sanctions on an agent’s actions. The study also uses the concept of cognitive dissonance associated with the fairness of institutions to investigate the agents’ behaviour. To showcase our model, we simulate two historical long-distance trading societies, namely Armenian merchants of New-Julfa and the English East India Company. The results demonstrate the importance of internal beliefs of agents as a pivotal aspect for following institutional rules.

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  1. 1.

    In our model agents may have different values associated with different dimensions and this weight impacts their behaviour. Note that the weights are complementary (i.e. 10% Introverted means 90% Extraverted).

  2. 2.

    This approach was used for modelling agency problems [39].

  3. 3.

    This deficit was because of lower wages and profits and higher living costs due to an increase in the number of private traders as a consequence of formation of the New East India Company (see p. 17 of [31]).

  4. 4.

    This rule helped the families to work like a firm.

  5. 5.

    Some discussions suggest that agents tend to break bureaucratic rules that seemed to be harmless for organisation [19].

  6. 6.

    These numbers are inspired from the numbers in the EIC [24].

  7. 7.

    Machiavelli discussed internal beliefs could help a governor to bring order into society: “[T]hose citizens whom the love of fatherland and its laws did not keep in Italy were kept there by an oath that they were forced to take; [... t]his arose from nothing other than that religion Numa [sic] had introduced in that city” (p. 34 of [30]).

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  1. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Amir Hosein Afshar Sedigh, Martin K. Purvis, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu & Maryam A. Purvis

  2. Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Ametyst-bygget, A205, Gjøvik, Norway

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Afshar Sedigh, A.H., Purvis, M.K., Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Frantz, C.K., Purvis, M.A. (2021). Impact of Different Belief Facets on Agents’ Decision—A Refined Cognitive Architecture to Model the Interaction Between Organisations’ Institutional Characteristics and Agents’ Behaviour. In: Aler Tubella, A., Cranefield, S., Frantz, C., Meneguzzi, F., Vasconcelos, W. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XIII. COIN COINE 2017 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12298. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72376-7_8

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