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Sanction Enforcement for Norm Violation in Multi-agent Systems: A Cafe Case Study

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Norms are established in an organization for its smooth functioning and well being. In multi-agent systems, norms are expectations of an agent about the behavior of other agents. It is norm violation that results in sanctions enforcement in an organization. The work presented in this paper primarily investigates various types of sanction enforcement dynamics existing in multi-agent systems in the form of a threefold task. First, it presents life-cycle model of sanctions in multi-agent systems which are deduced from norms’ life-cycle model. Second, it also helps researchers to investigate various types of circumstances subject to whom norms are violated and sanctions are enforced in a multi-agent system. Third, the proposed life-cycle model of sanctions and sanction enforcement dynamics are experimentally assessed by modeling a cafe (with norms and sanctions) in the form of a multi-agent system.

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    Harjot Kaur & Aastha Sharma

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  1. Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

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  2. Department of CSE, PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  3. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Tai Kang

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    Ali Husseinzadeh Kashan

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Kaur, H., Sharma, A. (2019). Sanction Enforcement for Norm Violation in Multi-agent Systems: A Cafe Case Study. In: Kulkarni, A., Satapathy, S., Kang, T., Kashan, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Engineering and Communication Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 828. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1610-4_33

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