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 …

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 …

Despite all the research done in the last years on the development of methodologies for
designing MAS, there is no methodology suitable for the specification and design of MAS in …

For agents, one of the advantages of being part of a society is the satisfaction of those goals
whose success depends on the abilities of other agents. In turn, societies are controlled by …

Nowadays there is an important increase in the adoption and use of distributed
computational solutions which are growing both in size (from tens to hundreds or even …

Norms constitute regulative mechanisms extensively enacted in groups, organisations, and
societies. However,'choosing the right norms to establish'constitutes an open problem that …

Norms have become a promising mechanism to ensure that open multi-agent systems
(MASs) produce a desirable social outcome. MASs can be defined as societies in which …

The use of norms is widely accepted as an effective approach to control and regulate the
behaviour of agents in multiagent systems. Existing work on normative multi-agent systems …

Electronic institutions are the agents' counterpart of human organizations, which are
specifically designed for providing support, trust, and legitimacy in electronic commerce …

This thesis describes a model of norm-governed practical reasoning agents and
demonstrates the implementation of this model in the form of the NoA Normative Agent …