In the last years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in
multi-agent systems' research. Recent applications of MAS enforce the need of using these …

Organisational structures for multi-agent systems are usually defined independently of any
spatial or temporal structure. Therefore, when the multi-agent system is situated in a spatial …

Norms have been considered an attractive means for the regulation of the dynamics of multi-
systems (MAS). Typically, it is left for the individual agents to apply (general) norms to the …

A norm-governed agent takes social norms into account in its practical reasoning. Such
norms characterise its role within a specific organisational context. By adopting a role, the …

Introduction to normative multiagent systems Page 1 Comput Math Organiz Theor (2006) 12:71–79
DOI 10.1007/s10588-006-9537-7 Introduction to normative multiagent systems Guido …

Increasing collaborative work and distributing information creates a request for large-scale
and flexible systems in regulated environments. A promising approach in the field of multi …

It is recognised that normative systems, and in particular electronic institutions and contracts
are a potentially powerful means for making agent interactions in multi-agent systems …

Norms explicitly represent prohibitions, permissions and obligations associated with
software agents, changing as agents act and interact in pursuit of their goals. Norms provide …

The behaviour of a norm-driven agent is governed by obligations, permissions and
prohibitions. Agents joining a society or accepting a contract for the purpose of executing …

In this paper we introduce and discuss ten guidelines for the use of normative systems in
computer science. We adopt a multiagent sys-tems perspective, because norms are used to …