Normative agent reasoning in dynamic societies

Fabiola López y López; Michael Luck; Mark D'Inverno

Normative agent reasoning in dynamic societies

Fabiola López y López, Michael Luck, Mark D'Inverno

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Abstract

Several innovative software applications such as those required by ambient intelligence, the semantic grid, e-commerce and e-marketing, can be viewed as open societies of heterogeneous and self-interested agents in which social order is achieved through norms. For agents to participate in these kinds of societies, it is enough that they are able to represent and fulfill norms, and to recognise the authority of certain agents. However, to voluntarily be part of a society or to voluntarily leave it, other characteristics of agents are needed. To find these characteristics we observe that on the one hand, autonomous agents have their own goals and, sometimes, they act on behalf of others whose goals must be satisfied. On the other, we observe that by being members, agents must comply with some norms that can be in clear conflict with their goals. Consequently, agents must evaluate the positive or negative effects of norms on their goals before making a decision concerning their social behaviour. Providing a model of autonomous agents that undertake this kind of norm reasoning is the aim of this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004
Editors	N.R. Jennings, C. Sierra, L. Sonenberg, M. Tambe
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	732-739
Number of pages	8
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	1581138644, 9781581138641
Publication status	Published - 19 Jul 2004
Event	Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004 - New York City, United States Duration: 19 Jul 2004 → 23 Jul 2004 https://www.ifaamas.org/AAMAS/aamas04/ https://dl.acm.org/conference/aamas/proceedings

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Name	Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

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Conference	Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York City
Period	19/07/04 → 23/07/04
Internet address	https://www.ifaamas.org/AAMAS/aamas04/ https://dl.acm.org/conference/aamas/proceedings

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López y López, F., Luck, M., & D'Inverno, M. (2004). Normative agent reasoning in dynamic societies. In N. R. Jennings, C. Sierra, L. Sonenberg, & M. Tambe (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004 (Vol. 2, pp. 732-739). (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS). IEEE Computer Society. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1018410.1018823

López y López, Fabiola ; Luck, Michael ; D'Inverno, Mark. / Normative agent reasoning in dynamic societies. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004. editor / N.R. Jennings ; C. Sierra ; L. Sonenberg ; M. Tambe. Vol. 2 IEEE Computer Society, 2004. pp. 732-739 (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS).

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López y López, F, Luck, M & D'Inverno, M 2004, Normative agent reasoning in dynamic societies. in NR Jennings, C Sierra, L Sonenberg & M Tambe (eds), Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004. vol. 2, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 732-739, Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004, New York City, New York, United States, 19/07/04. <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1018410.1018823>

Normative agent reasoning in dynamic societies. / López y López, Fabiola; Luck, Michael; D'Inverno, Mark.
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004. ed. / N.R. Jennings; C. Sierra; L. Sonenberg; M. Tambe. Vol. 2 IEEE Computer Society, 2004. p. 732-739 (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS).

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López y López F, Luck M, D'Inverno M. Normative agent reasoning in dynamic societies. In Jennings NR, Sierra C, Sonenberg L, Tambe M, editors, Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2004. Vol. 2. IEEE Computer Society. 2004. p. 732-739. (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS).

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