Multi-Agent Systems require coordination mechanisms in order to assemble the behaviour
of autonomous and heterogeneous agents and achieve the desired performance of the …

Norms are a way to provide some flexibility to the specification of acceptable actor behaviour
in a shared context. Instead of viewing norms as static restrictions over an agent's conduct …

The power of norms in both human societies and sociotechnical systems arises from the
facts that (1) societal norms, including laws and policies, characterize acceptable behavior …

Norms are widely recognised as a means of coordinating multiagent systems. The
distributed management of norms is a challenging issue and we observe a lack of truly …

Normative organisations use norms to guide and constrain agent behaviour in order to
facilitate cooperation. Norms and their associated enforcement strategies are chosen to …

Most autonomous agents are situated in a social context and need to interact with other
agents (both human and artificial) to complete their problem solving objectives. Such agents …

Social norms enable coordination in multiagent systems by constraining agent behaviour in
order to achieve a social objective. Automating the design of social norms has been shown …

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

Normative organisations provide a means to coordinate the activities of individual agents in
multiagent settings. The coordination is realized at run time by creating obligations and …

Correctly specifying the behaviour of normative systems such as contracts and institutions is
a troublesome problem. Designers are faced with two concurrent, difficult tasks: firstly …