Aspects of active norm learning and the effect of lying on norm emergence in agent societies
PRIMA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice
Norms and learning in probabilistic logic-based agents
DEON'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science
An agent-based simulation of employing social norms in energy conservation in households
PRIMA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Agent Based Simulation for a Sustainable Society and Multi-agent Smart Computing
Emergence of social norms through collective learning in networked agent societies
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Law enforcement in norm-governed learning agents
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Vicarious reinforcement and ex ante law enforcement: a study in norm-governed learning agents
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
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Norms in human societies are expectations of behaviours of the individuals. In human societies, there are several types of norms such as moral norms, social norms and legal norms (laws). In multi-agent systems, software agents are modelled as possessing characteristics and behaviour borrowed from human societies. In order to design and develop robust artificial agent societies, it is important to understand different approaches proposed by researchers by which norms can spread and emerge within agent societies. This paper makes three contributions to the study of norms. Firstly, based on the simulation research on norms, we propose a life-cycle model for norms. Secondly, we discuss different mechanisms used by researchers to study norm creation, identification, spreading, enforcement and emergence. We also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of these mechanisms. Thirdly, in the context of identifying the desired characteristics of the simulation models of norms we discuss the research issues that need to be addressed.