Norms in human societies are expectations of behaviours of the individuals. In human
societies, there are several types of norms such as moral norms, social norms and legal …

In multi-agent systems, software agents are modelled to possess characteristics and
behaviour borrowed from human societies. Norms are expectations of behaviours of the …

Norms are utilised in agent societies to encourage acceptable behaviour by the participating
agents. They can be established or revised from the top-down (authority) or from the bottom …

Despite many efforts to understand why and how norms can be incorporated into agents and
multi-agent systems, there are still several gaps that must be filled. This paper focuses on …

Recent years have seen an increase in the application of ideas from the social sciences to
computational systems. Nowhere has this been more pronounced than in the domain of …

Social norms are cultural phenomena that naturally emerge in human societies and help to
prescribe and proscribe normative patterns of behaviour. In recent times, the discipline of …

In this paper we propose a mechanism for norm emergence based on role models. The
mechanism uses the concept of normative advice whereby the role models provide advice to …

The advent of virtual environments such as SecondLife call for a distributed approach for
norm emergence and spreading. In open virtual environments, monitoring various …

In this paper we describe how our previously proposed role model agent mechanism for
norm emergence can be applied to artificial agent societies with network topologies that are …

The necessity to model the mental ingredients of norm compliance is a controversial issue
within the study of norms. So far, the simulation-based study of norm emergence has shown …