Norms and plans as unification criteria for social collectives

Authors:
Aldo Gangemi
Affiliations:
Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Venue:
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Year:
2008

Citing 11
Cited 10

Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model

SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The Berkeley FrameNet Project

COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Foundations for service ontologies: aligning OWL-S to dolce

Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Introduction to normative multiagent systems

Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
Normative autonomy and normative co-ordination: declarative power, representation, and mandate

Artificial Intelligence and Law
The ontological properties of social roles in multi-agent systems: definitional dependence, powers and roles playing roles

Artificial Intelligence and Law
An ontology of physical causation as a basis for assessing causation in fact and attributing legal responsibility

Artificial Intelligence and Law
On the Properties of Metamodeling in OWL1

Journal of Logic and Computation
Counts-as: classification or constitution? an answer using modal logic

DEON'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems
A constructive framework for legal ontologies

Law and the Semantic Web
From collective intentionality to intentional collectives: An ontological perspective

Cognitive Systems Research

An Ontology of Resources: Solving the Identity Crisis

ESWC 2009 Heraklion Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Introducing pattern-based design for legal ontologies

Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Channelling the Legal Information Flood
F--a model of events based on the foundational ontology dolce+DnS ultralight

Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Knowledge capture
Using the cDnS ontology as upper-level for a Scholarly Debate Ontology

Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010)
Ontology based interlingua translation

CICLing'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing - Volume Part II
A core ontology on events for representing occurrences in the real world

Multimedia Tools and Applications
The identity of resources on the Web: An ontology for Web architecture

Applied Ontology - Is there Beauty in Ontologies?
Designing core ontologies

Applied Ontology - Is there Beauty in Ontologies?
Automatic typing of DBpedia entities

ISWC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on The Semantic Web - Volume Part I
Towards adaptive normative systems for communities of agents

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems - Web Intelligence and Communities

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Based on the paradigm of Constructive Descriptions and Situations, we introduce NIC, an ontology of social collectives that includes social agents, plans, norms, and the conceptual relations between them. Norms are distinguished from plans, and their relations are formalized. A typology of social collectives is also proposed, including collection of agents, knowledge community, intentional collective, and normative intentional collective. NIC, represented as a first-order theory as well as a description logic for applications requiring automated reasoning, provides the expressivity to talk about the contexts (social, informational, circumstantial, and conceptual), in which collectives make and produce sense within the interplay of plans and norms.