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There is a recent trend on agent-oriented methods and abstractions in the field of Service Engineering to tackle governance of distributed (Semantic) Web systems. Some approaches are based on the creation of a social level where actors’ behaviour is regulated by means of computational norms. We present a framework where norm-enabled agents can, at runtime, 1) enter an organisational context, 2) get the organisational specification, including norms, and translate it into the agents’ internal representation and 3) determine the quality of a to-be-adopted plan taking into account the incentives derived from the norm-regulated context. A normative model formalisation is provided using Semantic Web elements. Then a translation of the formalism into Answer Set Programming and a full implementation of a normative plan evaluator are presented.
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Panagiotidi, S., Vázquez-Salceda, J., Vasconcelos, W. (2012). Contextual Norm-Based Plan Evaluation via Answer Set Programming. In: Pérez, J., et al. Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28762-6_24
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