Normative programs and normative mechanism design

  • Authors:
  • Nils Bulling;Mehdi Dastani

  • Affiliations:
  • Clausthal University of Technology;Utrecht University

  • Venue:
  • The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The environment is an essential component of multi-agent systems, which is often used to coordinate the behaviour of individual agents. Recently many programming languages have been proposed to facilitate the implementation of such environments. This extended abstract is motivated by the emerging programming languages that are designed to implement environments in terms of normative concepts such as norms and sanctions. We propose a formal analysis of normative environment programs from a mechanism design perspective. By doing this we aim at relating normative environment programs to mechanism design, setting the stage for studying formal properties of these programs such as whether a set of norms implements a specific social choice function in a specific equilibria.