Monitoring norm violations in multi-agent systems

  • Authors:
  • Nils Bulling;Mehdi Dastani;Max Knobbout

  • Affiliations:
  • Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal, Germany;Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands;Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The use of norms is widely accepted as an effective approach to control and regulate the behaviour of agents in multi-agent systems. Existing work on normative multi-agent systems has mainly focussed on how norms can influence the behaviour of agents by assuming that the agents' behaviours are perfectly monitored. In this paper we focus on monitoring mechanisms, propose different types of monitors, provide a logical analysis of monitors, study the relations between monitors and norms to be monitored, and finally explore computational aspects of norm monitoring.