Norms have been widely enacted in human and agent societies to regulate individuals'
actions. However, although legislators may have ethics in mind when establishing norms …

Complex systems often exhibit emergent behaviour, unexpected macro-level behaviour
caused by the interaction of micro-level components. In multiagent systems, these micro …

Most often, both agents and human societies use norms to coordinate their on-going
activities. Nevertheless, choosing the 'right'set of norms to regulate these societies …

We model a multiagent system (MAS) in socio-technical terms, combining a social layer
consisting of norms with a technical layer consisting of actions that the agents execute. This …

Human behavior is frequently guided by social and moral norms, and no human community
can exist without norms. Robots that enter human societies must therefore behave in norm …

Norms are behavioral expectations in communities. Online communities are also expected
to abide by the established practices that are expressed in the code of conduct of a system …

Norms constitute regulative mechanisms extensively enacted in groups, organisations, and
societies. However,'choosing the right norms to establish'constitutes an open problem that …

Norms have been extensively studied to coordinate multi-agent systems, and the literature
has investigated two general approaches to norm synthesis: off-line (synthesising norms at …

Since multi-agent systems are inspired by human societies, they do not only borrow their
coordination mechanisms such as conventions and norms, but also need to consider the …

When entering a system, an agent should be aware of the obligations and prohibitions
(collectively norms) that affect it. Existing solutions to this norm identification problem make …