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29th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2025, Michigan, United States Of America, 20 May 2025, vol.16253 LNAI, pp.3-19, (Full Text)
Emergence of conventions and social norms has been an active area of research in multiagent systems to facilitate coordination in agent societies. Various learning approaches, interaction frameworks, topological connections, and information availability assumptions have been investigated to facilitate the emergence of conventions. Most of these scenarios involve repeated bilateral interactions between learning agents choosing actions simultaneously and often modeled as stage games. Many real-life conventions, however, involve sequential decision making by two or more parties. In this paper, we investigate convention emergence in agent populations repeatedly playing bilateral sequential games. We investigate the development of conventions for exchange of greetings. We show what assumptions and biases can consistently produce stable and beneficial conventions to emerge in sequential interaction scenarios. Our experimental results and concomitant analysis sheds light on the dynamics of the emergence of multi-step conventions with sequential interactions.