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 …

Within the area of multi-agent systems, normative systems are a widely used framework for
the coordination of interdependent activities. A crucial problem associated with normative …

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 …

In open normative multi-agent communities, an agent is not usually and explicitly given the
norms of the host agents. Thus, when it is not able to adapt the communities's norms, it is …

In a heterogeneous community, which constitutes a number of social groups that adopt
different social norms, norm assimilation is considered as the main problem for a new …

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 …

Norms play an important role in coordinating, regulating and predicting agents' behavior in
open multi-agent societies. Much work has been done on modeling and developing …

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 …

Norms have been used in multi-agent systems as a standard description of agents'
behaviors. A lot of effort has been put into formalizing norms and utilizing them in agent …

An increasing number of applications are using the Internet for voice transmission, and
hence there is a growing demand for the Internet phone. However, the Internet was not …