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 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 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 …

Norms, that is, obligations, prohibitions and permissions, are useful abstractions to facilitate
coordination in open, heterogeneous multi-agent systems. We observe a lack of distributed …

Norms are being used in multi-agent systems as a powerful abstraction to capture social
constraints. Norms regulate the behavior of the agents by describing the actions that can be …

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 …

Most works on norms in the multi-agent systems field have concentrated on how norms can
be applied to regulate behaviour in agent societies using a top-down approach. In this work …

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 …

Norms represent behavioural aspects that are encouraged by a social group of agents or the
majority of agents in a system. Normative systems enable coordinating synthesised norms of …

Since the agent paradigm emerged, agent researchers have faced the challenge of building
open societies in which heterogeneous and independently designed entities can work …