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Agents are autonomous and thus their goals and beliefs cannot be changed by other agents or the environment, but from outside the agents we can change their institutional goals and beliefs, that is, the responsibilities and powers associated with their roles. In this paper, we introduce a model of institutional dynamics, where the dynamics of an institution is modeled by the creation or removal of responsibilities and powers. We illustrate the change of institutional goals and beliefs using a government scenario.
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Boella, G., van der Torre, L., Villata, S. (2008). Changing Institutional Goals and Beliefs of Autonomous Agents. In: Bui, T.D., Ho, T.V., Ha, Q.T. (eds) Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89674-6_11
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