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A Distributed Architecture for Enforcing Norms in Open MAS

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Advanced Agent Technology (AAMAS 2011)

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Norms have been promoted as a coordination mechanism for controlling agent behaviours in open MAS. Thus, agent platforms must provide normative support, allowing both norm-aware and non norm-aware agents to take part in MAS controlled by norms. In this paper, the most relevant proposals on the definition of norm enforcement mechanisms have been analysed. These proposals present several drawbacks that make them unsuitable for open MAS. In response to these problems, this paper describes a new Norm-Enforcing Architecture aimed at controlling open MAS.

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  1. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n., 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Natalia Criado, Estefania Argente & Vicent Botti

  2. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institut d’Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial, Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

    Pablo Noriega

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  1. Technische Universiteit, Sectie Filosofie, Postbus 5015, 2600, Delft, GA, The Netherlands

    Francien Dechesne

  2. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, 606-8501, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Hiromitsu Hattori

  3. Department of Software Technology, Technische Universiteit, Mekelweg 4, 2628, Delft, CD, The Netherlands

    Adriaan ter Mors

  4. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 40622, Valencia, Spain

    Jose Miguel Such

  5. Department of Computer Science, Linnaeus University, 351 95, Växjö, Sweden

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  6. University of Utrecht, PO Box 80.089, 3508 TB, Utrecht, the Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

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Criado, N., Argente, E., Noriega, P., Botti, V. (2012). A Distributed Architecture for Enforcing Norms in Open MAS. In: Dechesne, F., Hattori, H., ter Mors, A., Such, J.M., Weyns, D., Dignum, F. (eds) Advanced Agent Technology. AAMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7068. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27216-5_35

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