Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Implementing soft real-time agent control
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
AgentSpeak(XL): efficient intention selection in BDI agents via decision-theoretic task scheduling
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Programming Multi-Agent Systems in AgentSpeak using Jason (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Programming Multi-Agent Systems in AgentSpeak using Jason (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Give agents their artifacts: the A&A approach for engineering working environments in MAS
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
2APL: a practical agent programming language
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Systems
Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Systems
Norm-based behaviour modification in BDI agents
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Normative Multi-agent Programs and Their Logics
Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Programming Organization-Aware Agents
ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
From organisation specification to normative programming in multi-agent organisations
CLIMA'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computational logic in multi-agent systems
Agent programming with priorities and deadlines
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
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
20 years of agent-oriented programming in distributed AI: history and outlook
Proceedings of the 2nd edition on Programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, agents, and decentralized control abstractions
Monitoring norm violations in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Agent reasoning for norm compliance: a semantic approach
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
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Normative organisations provide a means to coordinate the activities of individual agents in multiagent settings. The coordination is realized at run time by creating obligations and prohibitions (norms) for individual agents. If an agent cannot meet an obligation or violates a prohibition, the organisation imposes a sanction on the agent. In this paper, we consider norm-aware agents that deliberate on their goals, norms and sanctions before deciding which plan to select and execute. A norm-aware agent is able to violate norms (accepting the resulting sanctions) if it is in the agent's overall interests to do so, e.g., if meeting an obligation would result in an important goal of the agent becoming unachievable. Programming norm-aware agents in conventional BDI-based agent programming languages is difficult, as they lack support for deliberating about goals, norms, sanctions and deadlines. We present the norm-aware agent programming language N-2APL. N-2APL is based on 2APL and provides support for beliefs, goals, plans, norms, sanctions and deadlines. We give the syntax and semantics of N-2APL, and show that N-2APL agents are rational in the sense of committing to a set of plans that will achieve the agent's most important goals and obligations by their deadlines while respecting its most important prohibitions.