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Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions: A Retrospective Review

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In this short contribution we explain how our research has evolved from the publication of the following paper [2] with respect to its relevant aspects. This paper proposes a model of norms whose content is related to time, which are specified at design time and therefore are expressed in terms of roles played by the agents. Those norms have an activation event that is used to express the template of the events that when happen, provided that certain conditions hold, transform the norm in a social commitment. This dynamic evolution of norms is formalized by means of ECA-rules. Another relevant contribution is that the model of norms presented in this paper makes it possible to specify two types of sanctions for norms enforcement: active sanctions and passive sanctions.

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  • Multiagent System
  • Java Program
  • Social Commitment
  • Event Calculus
  • Norm Enforcement

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The first author is supported by the project number 11115-KG funded by the Hasler Foundation.

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Fornara, N., Colombetti, M. (2012). Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions: A Retrospective Review. In: Sakama, C., Sardina, S., Vasconcelos, W., Winikoff, M. (eds) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IX. DALT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7169. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29113-5_12

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