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Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems

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A Model of Normative Multi-agent Systems and Dynamic Relationships

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For agents, one of the advantages of being part of a society is the satisfaction of those goals whose success depends on the abilities of other agents. In turn, societies are controlled by norms and, consequently, agents must be able first to model the society in which they exist, and then to identify the different relationships, due to norms, in which they might be involved in order to act appropriately. Both of these could mean the difference between the success or failure of their goals. To this end, this paper focuses on the identification of the basic components of norm-based systems, and on representing and analysing the dynamic relationships between member agents which result from the processing of norms.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias de la Computación, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México

    Fabiola López y López

  2. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

    Michael Luck

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  1. Institute for Computer Science, Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Gabriela Lindemann

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30, D-22527, Hamburg

    Daniel Moldt

  3. Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Rome, Italy

    Mario Paolucci

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López y López, F., Luck, M. (2004). A Model of Normative Multi-agent Systems and Dynamic Relationships. In: Lindemann, G., Moldt, D., Paolucci, M. (eds) Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems. RASTA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25867-4_16

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