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Abstract | ||
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Norms are the obligations, permissions and prohibitions associated with members of a society. Norms provide a useful abstraction with which to specify and regulate the behaviour of self-interested software agents in open, heterogeneous systems. Any realistic account of norms must address their dynamic nature: the norms associated with agents will change as agents act (and interact) --- prohibitions can be lifted, obligations can be fulfilled, and permissions can be revoked as a result of agents' actions. These norms may at times conflictwith one another, that is, an action may be simultaneously prohibited and obliged (or prohibited and permitted). Such conflicts cause norm-compliant agents to experience a paralysis: whatever they do (or not do) will go against a norm. In this paper we present mechanisms to detect and resolve normative conflicts. We achieve more expressiveness, precision and realism in our norms by using constraintsover first-order variables. The mechanisms to detect and resolve norm conflicts take into account such constraints and are based on first-order unification and constraint satisfaction. We also explain how the mechanisms can be deployed in the management of norms regulating environments for software agents. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1007/978-3-540-87654-0_2 | ESAW |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
constraintsover first-order variable,software agent,first-order unification,constraint satisfaction,norm-compliant agent,self-interested software agent,heterogeneous system,realistic account,dynamic nature,conflict resolution,norm conflict,norm-regulated environments | Law and economics,Social psychology,Constraint satisfaction,Political science,Abstraction,Unification,Normative,Conflict resolution,Norm (social),Software agent,Realism | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
4995 | 0302-9743 | 9 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.61 | 18 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin J. Kollingbaum | 1 | 390 | 33.38 |
| Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos | 2 | 772 | 67.44 |
| Andrés García-Camino | 3 | 365 | 18.88 |
| Timothy J. Norman | 4 | 1417 | 140.04 |