On the characterization of law and computer systems: the normative systems perspective
Deontic logic in computer science
A computational theory of normative positions
ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL) - Special issue devoted to Robert A. Kowalski
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Towards Socially Sophisticated BDI Agents
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Open and Closed Intermediaries in Normative Systems
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2006: The Nineteenth Annual Conference
jDALMAS: A Java/Prolog Framework for Deontic Action-Logic Multi-Agent Systems
KES-AMSTA '09 Proceedings of the Third KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Intermediate concepts in normative systems
DEON'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems
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An abstract architecture for idealized multi-agent systems whose behaviour is regulated by normative systems is developed and discussed. Agent choices are determined partially by the preference ordering of possible states and partially by normative considerations: The agent chooses that act which leads to the best outcome of all permissible actions. If an action is non-permissible depends on if the result of performing that action leads to a state satisfying a condition which is forbidden, according to the norms regulating the multi-agent system. This idea is formalized by defining set-theoretic predicates characterizing multi-agent systems. The definition of the predicate uses decision theory, the Kanger–Lindahl theory of normative positions, and an algebraic representation of normative systems.