Punishment and reputation-based mechanisms play a major role in supporting the evolution
of human cooperation. Theoretical accounts and field observations suggest that humans use …

The explanation of the “genesis” of this book is simple. I have always directly seen, in the
behavior of violent human beings and in my very own “mild” violent conducts, that they were …

We understand a socio-technical system (STS) as a cyber-physical system in which two or
more autonomous parties interact via or about technical elements, including the parties' …

As explained by Axelrod in his seminal work An Evolutionary Approach to Norms,
punishment is a key mechanism to achieve the necessary social control and to impose …

In the seminal work'An Evolutionary Approach to Norms', Axelrod identified internalization as
one of the key mechanisms that supports the spreading and stabilization of norms. But how …

In distributed computational systems with no central authority, social norms have shown
great potential in regulating the behaviour of self-interested agents, due to their distributed …

Punishment plays a crucial role in favoring and maintaining social order. Recent studies
emphasize the effect of the norm-signaling function of punishment. However, very little …

This chapter is concerned with the dynamics of social norms, that is the way that such norms
change. In particular this chapter concentrates on the lifecycle that social norms go through …

The use of social norms has proven to be effective in the self-governance of decentralised
systems in which there is no central authority. Axelrod's seminal model of norm …

As specified by Axelrod in his seminal work An Evolutionary Approach to Norms (Axelrod,
1986), punishment is a key mechanism to achieve the necessary social control and to …