Norms and normative multiagent systems have become the subjects of interest for many
researchers. Such interest is caused by the need for agents to exploit the norms in …

Modelling and simulation have long been dominated by equation-based approaches, until
the recent advent of agent-based approaches. To curb the resulting complexity of models …

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 …

A challenging problem currently addressed in the multi-agent systems area is the
development of open systems; which are characterized by the heterogeneity of their …

Most works on norms have investigated how norms are regulated using institutional
mechanisms. Very few works have focused on how an agent may infer the norms of a …

In this paper we propose a use-case-driven iterative design methodology for normative
frameworks, also called virtual institutions, which are used to govern open systems. Our …

Since multi-agent systems are inspired by human societies, they do not only borrow their
coordination mechanisms such as conventions and norms, but also need to consider the …

Adaptive organisation-centred multi-agent systems can dynamically modify their
organisational components to better accomplish their goals. Our research line proposes an …

In 1906, the Austrian writer Alexander Roda Roda, born Sándor Friedrich Rosenfeld, wrote
the story “Das Justizklavier”(The Justice Piano). In some state in the Maghreb—Roda Roda …

This chapter is concerned with the dynamics of social norms, that is the way that such norms
change. In particular this chapter concentrates on the lifecycle that social norms go through …