From the specification to the implementation of norms: an automatic approach to generate rules from norms to govern the behavior of agents

Silva, Viviane Torres

doi:10.1007/s10458-008-9039-8

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“…Moreover semantic web technologies are becoming an international standard for web applications and numerous tools, reasoners, and libraries are available to support the development and usage of ontologies. This is a crucial advantage with respect to other languages used in the multiagent community for the specification of norms and organizations, like as we already mentioned the Event Calculus [15,1], or other specific formal languages like the one required by the rule engine Jess [11,4].…”

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confidence: 99%

Ontology and Time Evolution of Obligations and Prohibitions Using Semantic Web Technology

Fornara

Colombetti

2010

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VII

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Abstract. The specification and monitoring of conditional obligations and prohibitions with starting points and deadlines is a crucial aspect in the design of open interaction systems. In this paper we regard such obligations and prohibitions as cases of social commitment, and propose to model them in OWL, the logical language recommended by the W3C for Semantic Web applications. In particular we propose an application-independent ontology of the notions of social commitment, temporal proposition, event, agent, role and norms that can be used in the specification of any open interaction system. We then delineate a hybrid solution that uses the ontology, SWRL rules, and a Java program to dynamically monitor or simulate the temporal evolution of social commitments, due to the elapsing of time and to the actions performed by the agents interacting within the system.

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Section: Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

Ontology and Time Evolution of Obligations and Prohibitions Using Semantic Web Technology

Fornara

Colombetti

2010

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VII

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“…In order to deal with autonomy and diversity of interests among the different members, such systems provide a set of norms that is used as a social control mechanism to ensure that a desirable social order in which agents can work is maintained [19]. For the best of our knowledge, norms can be defined as agentoriented mechanisms for regulating the behavior of agents through the definition of obligations (agents must accomplish a specific outcome), permissions (agents can act in a particular way) and prohibitions (agents must not act in a specific way) [13].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several approaches [4,19] have been proposed for the specification and implementation of norms. According to Garcia Camino et al [4], norms constitute a powerful coordination mechanism among heterogeneous agents.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors propose means to specify and explicitly manage the normative constraints on agents (i.e., permissions, prohibitions and obligations), with which distinct deontic notions and their relationships can be captured. Silva presents a normative language to specify norms and proposes the implementation of such norms by using a rule-based system [19]. The implementation is achieved by automatically transforming the specification of each norm of the system into a set of rules used to govern the behavior of the agents according to the norm.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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JSAN: A Framework to Implement Normative Agents

Viana

Alencar

Guimarães³

et al. 2015

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Abstract-Norms have become a promising mechanism to ensure that open multi-agent systems (MASs) produce a desirable social outcome. MASs can be defined as societies in which autonomous agents work to achieve both societal and individual goals. Norms regulate the behavior of agents by defining permissions, obligations and prohibitions, as well as encouraging and discouraging the fulfillment of norms through rewards and punishments mechanisms. Once the priority of software agent is the satisfaction of its own desires and goals, each agent must evaluate the effects associated to the fulfillment or violation of one or more norms before choosing which one should be complied. This paper introduces a framework for normative MASs simulation that provides mechanisms for understanding the impact of norms on an agent and the society to which an agent belongs.

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“…Although formalizing norms is an important steps towards its implementation, but existing work does not address the specification nor the implementation of norm adoption. We hypothesized that social norms can be formalised using ontology or deontic logic as described in [8], [9], [10]. To our knowledge there is no research that systematically formalizes the process of how an actor becomes aware of and adopt social norms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%