Constraining autonomy through norms

López, Fabiola López y; Lück, Michael; d’Inverno, Mark

doi:10.1145/544862.544905

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“…However, given that agents are autonomous, the fulfillment of norms can never be taken for granted (López et al, 2002). A normative agent is an agent whose behaviour is partly shaped by norms.…”

Section: Normative Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Details of different ways to select the norms to be intended or rejected are given in (López et al, 2002). After norm deliberation, the set of intended norms consists of those conflicting and non-conflicting norms that are accepted to be complied with by the agent, and the set of rejected norms consists of all conflicting and nonconflicting norms that are rejected by the agent.…”

Section: The Norm Deliberation Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Independent components of this framework have already been presented in different forums Luck, 2003, 2004;López et al, 2002López et al, , 2004. The objective of this paper is to present the framework as a whole.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A normative framework for agent-based systems

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2006

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One of the key issues in the computational representation of open societies relates to the introduction of norms that help to cope with the heterogeneity, the autonomy and the diversity of interests among their members. Research regarding this issue presents two omissions. One is the lack of a canonical model of norms that facilitates their implementation, and that allows us to describe the processes of reasoning about norms. The other refers to considering, in the model of normative multi-agent systems, the perspective of individual agents and what they might need to effectively reason about the society in which they participate. Both are the concerns of this paper, and the main objective is to present a formal normative framework for agent-based systems.

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“…As in the BOID architecture, they do not provide any mechanism by which an agent can violate a norm or reason about a norm violation. Another work by Lopez et al [14] discusses how norm compliance can be ensured while allowing autonomy, using rewards and sanctions. Such mechanisms, while certainly complimenting our approach, only handle the issue at a superficial level and do not give the power to an agent to understand what it means to obey or violate a norm with respect to its cognitions.…”

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A Coherence Based Framework for Institutional Agents

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

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Abstract. We introduce in this paper an agent model based on coherence theory. We give a formalization of Thagard's theory on coherence and use it to explain the reasoning process of an intentional agent that permits the agent to drop beliefs or to violate norms in order to keep a maximal state of coherence. The architecture is illustrated in the paper and a discussion on the possible use of this approach in the design of institutional agents is presented.

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“…Two enforcement strategies have been studied to attain norm compliance: the use of power to change the utilities through sanctions or rewards [2,3,8,14], and the spread of normative reputation in order to avoid interaction with violators [4,6,7,12,15]. Both strategies have the goal of making norm adopters better off than norm violators.…”

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Distributed Norm Enforcement Via Ostracism

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

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Abstract. An agent normative society has to deal with two main concerns: how to define norms and how to enforce them. Enforcement becomes a complex issue as agent societies become more decentralized and open. We propose a new distributed mechanism to enforce norms by ostracizing agents that do not abide by them. Our simulations have shown that, although complete ostracism is not always possible, the mechanism substantially reduces the number of norm violations.

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Constraining autonomy through norms

Cited by 73 publications

References 17 publications

A normative framework for agent-based systems

A normative framework for agent-based systems

A Coherence Based Framework for Institutional Agents

Distributed Norm Enforcement Via Ostracism

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