Abstract:

The Tragedy of the Commons is a well-known metaphor that illustrates the argument that free access and unrestricted demand  for a finite resource ultimately reduces the resource through overexploitation, temporarily or permanently. This proposal presents the different aspects and dynamics that affects goods, and specially common goods, as well as a bottom-up approach to such metaphor where a multi-agent system using deontic norms, to guide agents’ behaviour, and a provenance monitoring mechanism, which stores the actions the agents perform, allows us to analyse the norms and the actions and its effects, that have affected the outcome over the common good. Our proposal wants to verify that given a set of agents with certain behavioural traits are capable of generating an emergent group behaviour that make it possible to keep a sustainable capacity of exploitation and provision towards a common good in order to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons.