Intention is choice with commitment
Artificial Intelligence
Cognition, computing, and cooperation
ECAI-94 Proceedings of the workshop on agent theories, architectures, and languages on Intelligent agents
Communication and cooperation in agent systems: a pragmatic theory
Communication and cooperation in agent systems: a pragmatic theory
Agents that work in harmony by knowing and fulfilling their obligations
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Computational conflicts
Towards a cognitive approach to human-machine cooperation in dynamic situations
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Artificial liars: Why computers will (necessarily)deceive us and each other
Ethics and Information Technology
Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Robust agent teams via socially-attentive monitoring
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Operationalisation of norms for usage in electronic institutions
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Normative Agents in Health Care: Uses and challenges
AI Communications - Agents Applied in Health Care
Introduction to the special issue on normative multiagent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Ubi Lex, Ibi Poena: Designing Norm Enforcement in E-Institutions
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Operationalisation of Norms for Electronic Institutions
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
A Peer-to-Peer Normative System to Achieve Social Order
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Instrumenting Multi-agent Organisations with Artifacts to Support Reputation Processes
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
Limits to the Autonomy of Agents
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Current Issues in Computing and Philosophy
Trace signals: the meanings of stigmergy
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Effects of social network topology and options on norm emergence
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Reasoning about norms within uncertain environments
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Identifying norms of behaviour in open multi-agent societies
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Agent-Directed Simulation
Towards primate-like synthetic sociability
IVA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
A distributed architecture for enforcing norms in open MAS
AAMAS'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advanced Agent Technology
Open issues for normative multi-agent systems
AI Communications
MaNEA: A distributed architecture for enforcing norms in open MAS
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Norm Emergence with Biased Agents
International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems
Norms of Behaviour and Their Identification and Verification in Open Multi-Agent Societies
International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems
Human-inspired model for norm compliance decision making
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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The right framework for studying normative issues in infosociety and MAS is that of deliberate or spontaneous social order, and intended or unintended, centralised or decentralised forms of social control. For effectively supporting human cooperation it is necessary to "incorporate" social and normative knowledge in intelligent technology; computers should deal with--and thus partially "understand"--permissions, obligations, power, roles, commitments, trust, etc. Here only one facet of this problem is considered: the spontaneous and decentralised norm creation, and normative monitoring and intervention. Cognitive aspects of spontaneous conventions, implicit commitments, tacit agreements, and the bottom-up issuing and spreading of norms are discussed. The transition from "face to face" normative relationships to some stronger constraints on agents' action, and to institutions and authority, and the possibility of a consequent increase of trust, are explored. In particular, I focus on the transition from two party trust, right, permission, and commitment, to three party relationships, where some witness or some enforcing authority is introduced. In this perspective of 'formalising the informal', i.e., the interpersonal unofficial normative matter, I discuss (also in order to stress dangers of computer-based formalisation and enforcement of rules) the important phenomenon of functional (collaborative) systematic violation of rules in organisation and cooperation, and the possible emergence of a "convention to violate".