An architecture for autonomous normative agents

López, Fabiola López y; Márquez, Alicia Alcázar

doi:10.1109/enc.2004.1342594

Cited by 15 publications

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“…Several architectures have been proposed for the study of norms [16,72]. Researchers have created these different architectures to study and test their intuitions about norms [77].…”

Section: Two Branches Of Research In Normasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Norm creation, spreading and emergence: A survey of simulation models of norms in multi-agent systems

Savarimuthu

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2011

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Norms in human societies are expectations of behaviours of the individuals. In human societies, there are several types of norms such as moral norms, social norms and legal norms (laws). In multi-agent systems, software agents are modelled as possessing characteristics and behaviour borrowed from human societies. In order to design and develop robust artificial agent societies, it is important to understand different approaches proposed by researchers by which norms can spread and emerge within agent societies. This paper makes three contributions to the study of norms. Firstly, based on the simulation research on norms, we propose a life-cycle model for norms. Secondly, we discuss different mechanisms used by researchers to study norm creation, identification, spreading, enforcement and emergence. We also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of these mechanisms. Thirdly, in the context of identifying the desired characteristics of the simulation models of norms we discuss the research issues that need to be addressed.

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“…Several architectures have been proposed for the study of norms [16,72]. Researchers have created these different architectures to study and test their intuitions about norms [77].…”

Section: Two Branches Of Research In Normasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Norm creation, spreading and emergence: A survey of simulation models of norms in multi-agent systems

Savarimuthu

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2011

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“…There are two main research branches in normative multi-agent systems. The first branch focuses on normative system architectures, norm representations, norm adherence and the associated punitive or incentive measures [1,6]. The second branch deals with the emergence of norms.…”

Section: Norms and Multi-agent Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Norm Emergence in Agent Societies Formed by Dynamically Changing Networks

Awan

Awais²

2007

2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07)

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In this paper we describe how our previously proposed role model agent mechanism for norm emergence can be applied to artificial agent societies with network topologies that are changing dynamically. Dynamically changing network topologies account for agents joining and leaving the network and the links that are created and removed between agents in a society. In order to construct a dynamically changing network we have adopted a model representing agents as particles colliding in a social space. We demonstrate that the role model agent mechanism for norm emergence works on top of dynamically created network topologies that represent social relationship structures.

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“…There are two main research branches in normative multi-agent systems. The first branch focuses on normative system architectures, norm representations, norm adherence and the associated punitive or incentive measures [1,2,10,11]. A recent development is the research on emotion based mechanism for norm enforcement by Fix et al [6].…”

Section: Norms and Multi-agent Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%