Abstract
In this paper, we propose a technique for a software agent to detect the norms of a community of agents and assimilate its behavior to comply with the local normative protocol, failing which, the agent is refused services and resources. In this technique, the software agent is equipped with an algorithm, which detects and analyzes the normative interactions between local agents. When the detection is successful, it launches another algorithm to request for its assimilation to the local normative protocol, indicating its acceptance by the group of local agents.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ahmed, M., Ahmad, M.S., Yusoff, M.Z.M.: Modeling Agent-Based Collaborative Process. In: Pan, J.-S., Chen, S.-M., Nguyen, N.T. (eds.) ICCCI 2010. LNCS, vol. 6421, pp. 296–305. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Andrighetto, G., Conte, R., Turrini, P., Paolucci, M.: Emergence in the loop: Simulating the two way dynamics of norm innovation. In: Boella, G., van der Torre, L., Verhagen, H. (eds.) Normative Multi-agent Systems. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, vol. 07122. Internationales Begegnungs-und Forschungszentrum für Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany (2007)
Broersen, J., Dastani, M., Hulstijn, J., Huang, Z., van der Torre, L.: The BOID Architecture: Conflicts Between Beliefs, Obligations, Intentions And Desires. In: AGENT 2001. ACM, Canada (2001)
Campos, J., López-Sánchez, M., Esteva, M.: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Norm Adaptation. In: Corchado, E., Graña Romay, M., Manhaes Savio, A. (eds.) HAIS 2010. LNCS, vol. 6077, pp. 168–176. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Castelfranchi, C., Dignum, F., Jonker, M.C., Treur, J.: Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture (1999)
Chopinaud, C., Seghrouchni, A.E.F., Taillibert, P.: Prevention of harmful behaviors within cognitive and autonomous agents. Paper Presented at the Proceeding of the 2006 Conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 29 – September 1 (2006)
Governatori, G., Rotolo, A.: How do agents comply with norms? In: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), vol. 3, pp. 488–491 (2009)
López, F., Marquez, A.: An Architecture for Autonomous Normative Agents. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Mexican International Conference in Computer Science, ENC 2004 (2004)
Mohd Yusof, M.Z., Ahmed, M., Ahmad, A., Ahmad, M.S., Mustapha, A.: Sacrifice and Diligence in Normative Agent Environments. In: International Conference on Computer and Software Modeling (ICCSM 2010), Manila, Philippines, December 4-5, Indexed by EI (Compendex) and ISI Proceeding, ISTP (2010)
Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., Purvis, M.: Obligation Norm Identification in Agent Societies. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 13(4), 3 (2010)
Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Cranefield, S., Purvis, M., Purvis, M.: Internal agent architecture for norm identification. In: Proceeding of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN@AAMAS), pp. 156-172 (2009)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Mahmoud, M.A., Ahmad, M.S., Ahmad, A., Mohd Yusoff, M.Z., Mustapha, A. (2012). Norms Detection and Assimilation in Multi-agent Systems: A Conceptual Approach. In: Lukose, D., Ahmad, A.R., Suliman, A. (eds) Knowledge Technology. KTW 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32826-8_23
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32826-8_23
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-32825-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-32826-8
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)