Multi-agents systems are composed of autonomous and possibly heterogeneous software
agents that act according to their own interests. Some coordination mechanism must be …

Norms in human societies are expectations of behaviours of the individuals. In human
societies, there are several types of norms such as moral norms, social norms and legal …

Norms (permissions, obligations and prohibitions) offer a useful and powerful abstraction
with which to capture social constraints in multi-agent systems. Norms should exclude …

Most works on norms have investigated how norms are regulated using institutional
mechanisms. Very few works have focused on how an agent may infer the norms of a …

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 …

For fulfilling customer requests, enterprises are increasingly part of collaboration networks
with peers. Such collaborations, also known as virtual enterprises (VE), are governed by pre …

Smart devices that operate in a shared environment with people need to be aligned with
their values and requirements. We study the problem of multiple stakeholders informing the …

Norms are standards of behaviour expected of the members of a society. Norms in human
societies help in sustaining social order and facilitating cooperation and coordination among …

Institutions (also called normative frameworks) provide an effective mechanism to govern
agents in open intelligent systems. An institution specifies a set of norms, with respect to …