Software Engineering Journal - Special issue on software process and its support
The impact of locality and authority on emergent conventions: initial observations
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Time and norms: a formalisation in the event-calculus
ICAIL '99 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
A computational theory of normative positions
ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL) - Special issue devoted to Robert A. Kowalski
Flexible protocol specification and execution: applying event calculus planning using commitments
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Emergence of social conventions in complex networks
Artificial Intelligence
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Formalizing a Language for Institutions and Norms
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
A pi-calculus Model of a Spanish Fish Market - Preliminary Report
AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
Iterative combinatorial auctions: achieving economic and computational efficiency
Iterative combinatorial auctions: achieving economic and computational efficiency
PeerTrust: Supporting Reputation-Based Trust for Peer-to-Peer Electronic Communities
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
AMELI: An Agent-Based Middleware for Electronic Institutions
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Operationalisation of norms for usage in electronic institutions
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Friends no more: norm enforcement in multiagent systems
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Norm-Oriented Programming of Electronic Institutions: A Rule-Based Approach
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
A Peer-to-Peer Normative System to Achieve Social Order
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
On the logic of normative systems
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
The role of clustering on the emergence of efficient social conventions
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Role model based mechanism for norm emergence in artificial agent societies
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
A lightweight coordination calculus for agent systems
DALT'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
The deontic component of action language n C+
DEON'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems
S-Moise+: a middleware for developing organised multi-agent systems
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
A social-network defence against whitewashing
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
On modeling punishment in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Manipulating convention emergence using influencer agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Building Norms-Adaptable Agents from Potential Norms Detection Technique PNDT
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
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In a multiagent system where norms are used to regulate the actions agents ought to execute, some agents may decide not to abide by the norms if this can benefit them. Norm enforcement mechanisms are designed to counteract these benefits and thus the motives for not abiding by the norms. In this work we propose a distributed mechanism through which agents in the multiagent system that do not abide by the norms can be ostracised by their peers. An ostracised agent cannot interact anymore and looses all benefits from future interactions. We describe a model for multiagent systems structured as networks of agents, and a behavioural model for the agents in such systems. Furthermore, we provide analytical results which show that there exists an upper bound to the number of potential norm violations when all the agents exhibit certain behaviours. We also provide experimental results showing that both stricter enforcement behaviours and larger percentage of agents exhibiting these behaviours reduce the number of norm violations, and that the network topology influences the number of norm violations. These experiments have been executed under varying scenarios with different values for the number of agents, percentage of enforcers, percentage of violators, network topology, and agent behaviours. Finally, we give examples of applications where the enforcement techniques we provide could be used.