Complex systems often exhibit emergent behaviour, unexpected macro-level behaviour
caused by the interaction of micro-level components. In multiagent systems, these micro …

The concept of a norm is found widely across fields including artificial intelligence, biology,
computer security, cultural studies, economics, law, organizational behaviour and …

Norms are shared expectations of behaviours that exist in human societies. Norms help
societies by increasing the predictability of individual behaviours and by improving co …

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 …

Norms are standards of behaviour expected of the members of a society. Norms in human
societies help in sustaining social order and facilitating cooperation and coordination among …

Norms are shared expectations of behaviours that exist in human societies. Norms help
societies by increasing the predictability of individual behaviours and by improving co …

In the physical world, the rules governing behaviour are debugged by observing an outcome
that was not intended and the addition of new constraints to prevent the attainment of that …

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

Multi-agent systems are viewed as consisting of individual agents whose behaviors are
regulated by an organizational artifact. This chapter presents a programming language that …

Norms are being used in multi-agent systems as a powerful abstraction to capture social
constraints. Norms regulate the behavior of the agents by describing the actions that can be …