Modelling Norms for Autonomous Agents

  • Authors:
  • Fabiola López y. López;Michael Luck

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ENC '03 Proceedings of the 4th Mexican International Conference on Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Societies are regulated by norms and, consequently,autonomous agents that want to be part of such societies must be able to reason about norms. However,no reasoning can be done if agents lack a model ofnorms that enables them to know how, by complyingwith norms,some of their goals might be affected. Inthis paper, a general model of norms is proposed. Bycontrast with current models of norms, our model emphasises those aspects that autonomous agents mightconsider before taking decisions regarding norms. Themodel is applied to represent the most common kindsof norms that exist in a society, and its effectiveness todesign systems of norms is shown.