Norms and normative multiagent systems have become the subjects of interest for many
researchers. Such interest is caused by the need for agents to exploit the norms in …

A challenging problem currently addressed in the multi-agent systems area is the
development of open systems; which are characterized by the heterogeneity of their …

This chapter surveys the multi-agent programming research field by presenting and
discussing some typical multi-agent programming languages and frameworks. It provides an …

In an organisational setting such as an online marketplace, an entity called the
'organisation'or 'institution'defines interaction protocols, monitors agent interaction, and …

In this paper we introduce and discuss ten guidelines for the use of normative systems in
computer science. We adopt a multiagent sys-tems perspective, because norms are used to …

Human social relationships imply conforming to the norms, behaviors, and cultural values of
the society, but also socialization of emotions, to learn how to interpret and show them. In …

Open multi-agent systems composed of heterogeneous, autonomous and independently
designed agents are usually governed by a set of norms. The established norms regulate …

A single global authority is not sufficient to regulate heterogenous agents in multiagent
systems based on distributed architectures, due to idiosyncratic local situations and to the …

In a complex adaptive system, norms are widely used to regulate agents' behavior within a
society in which the agents are not explicitly given the norms of different host systems, but …

Abstract Reasoning about norms and time is of central concern to the regulation or control of
the behavior of a multi-agent system. In earlier work we introduce a representation of …