Public policies are designed to have an impact on particular societies, yet policy-oriented
computer models and simulations often focus more on articulating the policies to be applied …

● Design Methodologies: Integrating value-based and co-active design methods to ensure
responsibility in and by design; and● Multiagent Technologies and Formal Methods …

Technology for supporting people in their daily lives such as personal assistant agents and
smart homes carry great potential for making our lives more connected, healthy, efficient and …

Protection racketeering groups are powerful, deeply entrenched in multiple societies across
the globe, and they harm the societies and economies in which they operate in multiple …

Ensuring trustworthy performance of autonomous agents and multiagent systems (MAS)
requires computational methods and formal tools to support reasoning about different forms …

When entering a system, an agent should be aware of the obligations and prohibitions
(collectively norms) that affect it. Existing solutions to this norm identification problem make …

A Variational Basis for the Regulation and Structuration Mechanisms of Agent Societies Page
1 Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa A Variational Basis for the Regulation and Structuration …

Norms are an important part of human social systems, governing many aspects of group
decision-making. Yet many popularly used social models neglect to model normative effects …

This paper discusses the importance of ethical alignment in AI systems, particularly those
designed with citizen end users in mind. It explores the intersection of responsible AI, socio …

Agent-based modelling (ABM) has been used to study the dynamics of complex systems,
including human societies. However, the design of such models often fails to capture one of …