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Norm reasoning services

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  • N. Criado

    (University of Bolton)

  • J.M. Such

    (Lancaster University)

  • V. Botti

    (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia)

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Norms are used in open Multi-Agent Systems as a formal specification of deontic statements aimed at regulating the actions of agents and the interactions among them. In this paper, we propose a set of services facilitating the development of both non-normative and normative agents for norm-governed MAS. Specifically, we propose to provide agents with norm reasoning services. These services will help agent designers/developers to programme agents that consider norm reasoning without having to implement the needed mechanisms to reason about norms by themselves. This article shows how these services perform as well as the results of the experiments that we conducted to evaluate their performance.

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  • N. Criado & J.M. Such & V. Botti, 2014. "Norm reasoning services," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 201-223, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:infosf:v:16:y:2014:i:2:d:10.1007_s10796-013-9444-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s10796-013-9444-7
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    1. Fabiola López y López & Michael Luck & Mark d’Inverno, 2006. "A normative framework for agent-based systems," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer, vol. 12(2), pages 227-250, October.
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    1. Juan M. Alberola & Vicent Botti & Jose M. Such, 2014. "Advances in infrastructures and tools for multiagent systems," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 163-167, April.

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