Operationalisation of norms for usage in electronic institutions

Aldewereld, Huib; Dignum, Frank; García-Camino, Andrés; Noriega, Pablo; Rodŕıguez-Aguilar, Juan A.; Sierra, Carles

doi:10.1145/1160633.1160669

Cited by 34 publications

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“…Some researchers are working on using deontic logic to define and represent norms [11,10]. Several researchers have worked on mechanisms for norm compliance and enforcement [12][13][14]. A recent development is the research on emotion based mechanism for norm enforcement by Fix et al [15].…”

Section: Normative Multi-agent Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role Model Based Mechanism for Norm Emergence in Artificial Agent Societies

Savarimuthu

Cranefield

Purvis

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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III

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The Department of Information Science is one of seven departments that make up the School of Business at the University of Otago. The department offers courses of study leading to a major in Information Science within the BCom, BA and BSc degrees. In addition to undergraduate teaching, the department is also strongly involved in postgraduate research programmes leading to MCom, MA, MSc and PhD degrees. Research projects in spatial information processing, connectionist-based information systems, software engineering and software development, information engineering and database, software metrics, distributed information systems, multimedia information systems and information systems security are particularly well supported.The views expressed in this paper are not necessarily those of the department as a whole. The accuracy of the information presented in this paper is the sole responsibility of the authors. CopyrightCopyright remains with the authors. Permission to copy for research or teaching purposes is granted on the condition that the authors and the Series are given due acknowledgment. Reproduction in any form for purposes other than research or teaching is forbidden unless prior written permission has been obtained from the authors. CorrespondenceThis paper represents work to date and may not necessarily form the basis for the authors' final conclusions relating to this topic. It is likely, however, that the paper will appear in some form in a journal or in conference proceedings in the near future. The authors would be pleased to receive correspondence in connection with any of the issues raised in this paper, or for subsequent publication details. Please write directly to the authors at the address provided below. (Details of final journal/conference publication venues for these papers are also provided on the Department's publications web pages: http://www.otago.ac.nz/informationscience/pubs/). Any other correspondence concerning the Series should be sent to the DPS Coordinator. Abstract. In this paper we propose a mechanism for norm emergence based on role models. The mechanism uses the concept of normative advice whereby the role models provide advice to the follower agents. Our mechanism is built using two layers of networks, the social link layer and the leadership layer. The social link network represents how agents are connected to each other. The leadership network represents the network that is formed based on the role played by each agent on the social link network. The two kinds of roles are leaders and followers. We present our findings on how norms emerge on the leadership network when the topology of the social link network changes. The three kinds of social link networks that we have experimented with are fully connected networks, random networks and scale-free networks.

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Section: Normative Multi-agent Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role Model Based Mechanism for Norm Emergence in Artificial Agent Societies

Savarimuthu

Cranefield

Purvis

et al.

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III

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“…We use a language for substantive norms (Aldewereld et al 2006) which is an evolution of the original norm language in HARMONIA. Its central element is the norm condition, based in deontic concepts (OBLIGED, PERMITTED, FOR-BIDDEN) which can be conditional (IF) and can include temporal operators (BEFORE, AFTER).…”

Section: Norms In Organ Transplant Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In (Aldewereld et al 2006;Aldewereld 2007) there is a first exploration of substantive norms already applied to AMELI. The main difference in our approach is that we can also include internal information from agents which is not part of any interactions.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using SOA Provenance to Implement Norm Enforcement in e-Institutions

Vázquez-Salceda

Álvarez-Napagao

2009

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV

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In the last 10 years several approaches and technologies other than MAS (such as Web services and Grid computing) have emerged, with the support of the industry, providing their own solutions to distributed computation. As both Web services and Grid computing are based in the concept of service orientation, where all computation is split in independent, decoupled services, there is an opportunity for MAS researchers to test and extend their mechanisms and techniques in these emerging technologies. In this paper we describe a way to adapt the HARMONIA framework to be applied in highly regulated Web services and Grid computing scenarios. To do so we include a provenance mechanism as part of our norm enforcement mechanisms, which can be integrated into a SOA Governance workflow. We will show with an example how provenance allows the observation of both service interactions and (optionally) extra information about meaningful events in the system that cannot be observed in the interaction messages.

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“…We are supposing that the two importers and the two exporters, together with the witness, have stated that the defendant is guilt (wA(x)). The verdict, i.e the judge point of view about the violated norm, can be provided by applying the consensus operator illustrated in equation (2). In this example the verdict (equation (18)) states that the probability of the consolidator agent has violated norm 01 is 67%.…”

Section: The Judgment Subsystemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such an approach assumes that the governance system can enforce every norm since it can access all messages and actions regulated by a norm. But in open MAS with heterogeneous and independently designed agents, there will be private messages that can only be perceived by senders and receivers and execution of actions that can only be noticed by the agents that are executing them or by a group of agents that suffers from their violations [2]. For instance, norm 02 cannot be regulated by such approaches since the messages exchange between the involved agents are not public ones.…”

Section: Governance Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%