Normative monitoring: semantics and implementation

  • Authors:
  • Sergio Alvarez-Napagao;Huib Aldewereld;Javier Vázquez-Salceda;Frank Dignum

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya;Universiteit Utrecht;Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya;Universiteit Utrecht

  • Venue:
  • COIN@AAMAS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The concept of Normative Systems can be used in the scope of Multi-Agent Systems to provide reliable contexts of interactions between agents where acceptable behaviour is specified in terms of norms. Literature on the topic is growing rapidly, and there is a considerable amount of theoretical frameworks for normative environments, some in the form of Electronic Institutions. Most of these approaches focus on regulative norms rather than on substantive norms, and lack a proper implementation of the ontological connection between brute events and institutional facts. In this paper we present a formalism for the monitoring of both regulative (deontic) and substantive (constitutive) norms based on Structural Operational Semantics, its reduction to Production Systems semantics and our current implementation compliant to these semantics.