Gossip is informal talking about colleagues. Taking a social network perspective, we argue
that group boundaries and social status in the informal workplace network determine who …

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 …

In normative multi-agent systems, the question of “how an agent identifies norms in an open
agent society” has not received much attention. This paper aims at addressing this question …

Orientation: Office gossip can result in someone from a minority group feeling powerless,
being resigned to the out-group and be deprived of social networks. Research purpose: This …

An agent-based negotiation team is a group of interdependent agents that join together as a
single negotiation party due to their shared interests in the negotiation at hand. The reasons …

In a multiagent system where norms are used to regulate the actions agents ought to
execute, some agents may decide not to abide by the norms if this can benefit them. Norm …

The notion of validity fulfils a crucial role in legal theory. In the emerging Web 3.0, Semantic
Web languages, legal ontologies, and normative multi-agent systems (nMAS) are designed …

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 …

Peer punishment has been an effective means to ensure that norms are complied with in a
population of self-interested agents. However, current approaches to establishing norms …

The nature of my research topic comes with the handicap that I sometimes wonder whether
my colleagues gossip about me. Without being paranoid, I am quite certain they do agree …