IWINAC
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
2011
Springer
Abstract. Social behavior, as compared to the egoistic and rational behavior, is known to be more beneficial to groups of subjects and even to individual members of a group. For t...
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Springer
Research on resource-bounded agents has established that rational agents need to be able to revise their commitments in light of new opportunities. In the context of collaborative...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
Social norms enable coordination in multiagent systems by constraining agent behaviour in order to achieve a social objective. Automating the design of social norms has been shown...
FLAIRS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
In this paper we address the question of assigning social norms to agents: should we attempt to ascribe social norms to agents that will act in complex dynamic environments, or is...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Behavioral norms are key ingredients that allow agent coordination where societal laws do not sufficiently constrain agent behaviors. Whereas social laws need to be enforced in a...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Our main interest research is focused on reaching a decentralized form of social order through the usage of social norms in virtual communities. In this paper, we analyze the effe...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
The advent of virtual environments such as SecondLife call for a distributed approach for norm emergence and spreading. In open virtual environments, monitoring various interactin...
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
In multi-agent systems, social commitments are increasingly used to capture roles, social norms, the semantics of agent communication as well as other inter-agent dependencies. Th...
DALT
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
The concept of a social norm is used in multi-agent systems to specify behaviours required of agents interacting in a given social context. We describe a method for specifying soci...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
A norm-governed agent takes social norms into account in its practical reasoning. Such norms characterise its role within a specific organisational context. By adopting a role, th...