Norms are used to represent desirable behaviours that software agents should exhibit in
sophisticated multi-agent solutions. Although we now enjoy a body of research on norms …

Normative multi-agent systems offer the ability to integrate social and individual factors to
provide increased levels of fidelity with respect to modelling social phenomena, such as …

Norms regulate software agent coordination and behavior in multi-agent communities.
Adopted norms have impacts on agent's goals, plans, and actions. Although norms generate …

This article presents a high-level overview of the literature on norms and their uses in multi-
agent systems. We distinguish the main types of norms used in multi-agent systems, and the …

Norms have an obvious role in the coordinating and predicting behaviours in societies of
software agents. Most researchers assume that agents already know the norms of their …

Norms are shared expectations of behaviours that exist in human societies. Norms help
societies by increasing the predictability of individual behaviours and by improving co …

Norms are commonly used in MAS to formally express the expected behaviour of agents in
open environments. Current norm formalisms focus on the declarative nature of norms …

This volume is the ninth in the COIN (Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in
Agent Systems) workshop series, which has its roots in 2005. The volume contains revised …

There is a wide agreement on the use of norms in order to specify the expected behaviour of
agents in open MAS. However, current norm formalisms focus on the declarative nature of …

A challenging problem currently addressed in the multi-agent systems area is the
development of open systems; which are characterized by the heterogeneity of their …