Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

Altruistic punishment (or punishment) has been extensively shown as an important
mechanism for promoting cooperation in human societies. In AI, the emergence of …

The first issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law journal was published in 1992. This paper
offers some commentaries on papers drawn from the Journal's third decade. They indicate a …

Complex systems often exhibit emergent behaviour, unexpected macro-level behaviour
caused by the interaction of micro-level components. In multiagent systems, these micro …

There is an increasing need for norms to be embedded in technology as the widespread
deployment of applications such as autonomous driving, warfare and big data analysis for …

In this paper we consider how the three main approaches to ethics–deontology,
consequentialism and virtue ethics–relate to the implementation of ethical agents. We …

Social norms play a crucial role in guiding agents towards understanding and adhering to
standards of behavior, thus reducing social conflicts within multi-agent systems (MASs) …

The emergence of social norms has attracted much interest in a wide array of disciplines,
ranging from social science and cognitive science to artificial intelligence. In this paper, we …

Since multi-agent systems are inspired by human societies, they do not only borrow their
coordination mechanisms such as conventions and norms, but also need to consider the …

Practical reasoning, reasoning about what actions should be chosen, is highly dependent
both on the individual values of the agent concerned and on what others choose to do …