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 …

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

Decision makers are commonly challenged with comparing, and ultimately ranking,
elements with regards to the degree to which they satisfy multiple criteria and in terms of …

Smart devices, such as smart speakers, are becoming ubiquitous, and users expect these
devices to act in accordance with their preferences. In particular, since these devices gather …

In an autonomous system, rational agents aim to maximize their benefits. Rational agents
gradually give up cooperation with others and only request services, which leads to the …

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 …

Undesired or unexpected properties are frequent, as large-scale complex systems with
nonlinear interactions are being designed and implemented to answer real-life scenarios …

The live identification of emergent behavior in complex systems with little a-priori information
is a challenging task and existing approaches are either applicable to a small subset of …

The literature on norm emergence and normative MAS considers norms from two
perspectives, namely: prescriptive norms using deontic concepts, and emergent norms that …

Customising AI technologies to each user's preferences is fundamental to them functioning
well. Unfortunately, current methods require too much user involvement and fail to capture …