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Deliberate Normative Agents

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Agent theories have developed concepts and methodologies that can be applied for having a better understanding of reasoning about obligations. This work proposes an agent-based framework for modeling obligations and norms: our agents are able to deal with norms and to decide autonomously if they have to be respected or not. The key idea is that an obligation involves two agents: the agent who must respect the norm and the agent who watches on the fulfillment of the norm (and can sanction the other agent). The first agent must foresee the behavior of the second agent when he has to choose his own line of behavior.

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Boella, G., Lesmo, L. (2001). Deliberate Normative Agents. In: Conte, R., Dellarocas, C. (eds) Social Order in Multiagent Systems. Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1555-5_5

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