In this chapter, we first provide a general introduction to the research area methodology and
relevance, then we discuss normative reasoning for multiagent systems, and finally we …

This paper discusses the role that expectations have in agent reasoning, and focuses on the
author's previous work on modelling and monitoring expectations with a complex temporal …

Previous research on modelling and monitoring norms, contracts and commitments has
studied the semantics of concepts such as obligation, permission, prohibition and …

We describe an approach to the representation of requirements using answer set
programming and how this leads to a vision for the role of artificial intelligence techniques in …

Existing approaches for the verification of normative systems consider limited
representations of norms, often neglecting collective imperatives, deadlines and contrary-to …

With the advent of highly distributed and populated artificial societies where centralized
coordination is unfeasible, normative multiagent systems have moved into the focus of …

New networking technologies such as wireless mobile grids and peer-to-peer middleware
are examples of a growing class of open distributed systems whose strength is the absence …

Norms are used to represent desirable behaviours that software agents should exhibit in
sophisticated multi-agent solutions. Although we now enjoy a body of research on norms …

We start from the view that the central theme of the research at the core of coordination,
organization, institutions and norms, is whether the social structures and mechanisms, that …