`scml.std.policy`

Module Contents

A std agent structured in three components, state encoder, policy (action) and action decoder.

class scml.std.policy.StdPolicy(*args, **kwargs)[source]

A std agent structured in three components, state encoder, policy (action) and action decoder.

The agent is divided into three components:

State encoder (encode_state()) which takes the current state of all negotiation mechanisms, access the awi as needed, and generates a state which can be of any type to be passed to the next component.
Policy (act()) which takes the state generated from the state encoder and returns an action which may be encoded as any type to be passed to the next component. The policy (i.e. `act` () method) is not supposed to access the AWI or any other members of the class. It is preferred to be a pure function. This makes it easy to test the policy at predefined conditions (i.e. states) without having to construct a simulation.
Action decoder (decode_action()) which takes the action generated from the policy and generates the appropriate set of responses to all partners.

Remarks:

The simplest form of state encoder which is implemented by default is to return the state member of the AWI.
The simplest form of action encoding is to simply return the responses as a dict[str, SAOResponse] from act which is then passed as it is by decode_action . This is the default implementation of decode_action