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 …

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 …

Currently, research in normative multi-agent systems focus on how a visitor or new agent
detects and updates its host norms autonomously without being explicitly given by the host …

In this paper, we propose a technique for a software agent to detect the norms of a
community of agents and assimilate its behavior to comply with the local normative protocol …

In this paper, we propose a norms mining technique for a visitor agent to detect the norms of
a community of local agents to comply with the community's normative protocol. In this …

Open Source Software Development (OSSD) often suffers from conflicting views and actions
due to the perceived flat and open ecology of an open source community. This often …

This paper presents a contribution to research on norms detection by proposing a technique,
which is called the Potential Norms Detection Technique (PNDT). The literature proposes …

Societal rules, as exemplified by norms, aim to provide a degree of behavioural stability to
multi-agent societies. Norms regulate a society using the deontic concepts of permissions …

Institutions, as manifestations of social behaviour, are crucial elements of any society's
structure and are widely studied in the area of New Institutional Economics as a determinant …

Most works on norms have investigated how norms are regulated using institutional
mechanisms which assume that agents know the norms of the society they are situated in …