In open dynamic societies, agents are required to work with others that do not necessarily
have the same set of objectives. If left unchecked, self-interested agents will try to …

Norms have facilitated smoother functioning in human societies. In the field of normative
multi-agent systems researchers are interested in investigating how the concept of social …

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 …

Social norms have become a ubiquitous concern across political science. Yet, numerous,
important questions remain with respect to how social norms come into existence and how …

As research in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has been expanding its focus from from the
individual, cognitive focussed, agent models to models of socially situated agents, MAS …

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 …

In this chapter we provide an introductory presentation of normative multi-agent systems
(nMAS). The key idea of the chapter is that any definition of nMAS should preliminarily clarify …

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 …

Social norms play a pivotal role in sustaining social order by regulating individual behaviors
in a society. In normative multiagent systems, social norms have been used as an efficient …

In this article, principles of architectures relating to normative agents are evaluated with
regard to the question whether and to what extend results of empirical research are …