Introduction to the special issue on normative multiagent systems

Abstract

This special issue contains four selected and revised papers from the second international workshop on normative multiagent systems, for short NorMAS07 (Boella et al. In this editorial we discuss the shift, examples, and 10 new challenges in this more dynamic setting, which we use to introduce the papers of this special issue.Keywords Norms · Multiagent Systems · Normative multiagent systems · Social mechanism design · Artifical social systems Towards a more dynamic interactionist viewTraditionally normative systems have been studied in philosophy, sociology, law, and ethics, and during the past two decades they have been studied in deontic logic in computer science ( EON). Normative multiagent systems is a research area where the traditional normative systems and EON research fields meet agent research. The proposed solutions to the EON research problems are changing, and solutions based on multiagent systems are increasing. Gradually the EON research focus changes from logical relations among norms, to, for

Boolean Game with Prioritized Norms

“…In recent years, normative multi-agent system [6,3] arises as a new interdisciplinary academic area bringing together researchers from multi-agent system [27,32,31], deontic logic [14] and normative system [1,18,2]. By combining boolean games and norms, we here develop a new approach to normative multi-agent system.…”

A defeasible logic for modelling policy-based intentions and motivational attitudes

“…Also, as is the case for intention where modal literals are not allowed as consequent of rules for intention, modal literals are not permitted in consequents of rules for obligations. 11 The intuition behind the interpretation of the rules for the deontic component is that strict rules express hard constraints while defeasible rules represent soft constraints. 12 A hard constraint is a condition that cannot be violated, while soft constraints can be violated in exceptional situations and thus they are open to exceptions.…”

“…For a survey of current research on modelling interactions between mental attitudes for (normative) multi-agents see [11]. Despite the plethora of proposals devoted to this topic, the related work that is directly relevant for this paper is mainly the BOID architecture for the interactions of mental attitudes and [40] for minimising the effects of logical omniscience using rule base formalisms for agents.…”

Logic and Games for Ethical Agents in Normative Multi-agent Systems

“…This research question is understood in the setting of normative multi-agent system. Normative multi-agent system [3] is a new interdisciplinary academic area developed in recent years bringing together researchers from multi-agent system [16], deontic logic [8] and normative system [1,11,2]. In this paper we adopt a proposition control game Livio Robaldo has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 661007 for the project "ProLeMAS: PROcessing LEgal language in normative Multi-Agent Systems".…”