Detection and resolution of normative conflicts in multi-agent systems : a literature survey

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Contract Formation through Preemptive Normative Conflict Resolution

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Policy-driven planning in coalitions - A case study

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Run-time Injection of Norms in Simulated Smart Environments

Smart systems have to deal with environmental changes and react for adapting their behavior to changes in the operating conditions, so to always meet users' expectations. This is fundamental for those systems operating in open environments that may change frequently. Smart environments are complex systems that more than others are affected by these issues. In this paper, we propose a normative framework for regulating at run-time system behavior when some situations occur, thus providing system flexibility. The proposed approach includes also mechanisms to identify anomalous situations that can occur in the system due to the run-time injection of new norms

Learning policy constraints through dialogue

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Norm Monitoring under Partial Action Observability

In the context of using norms for controlling multi-agent systems, a vitally important question that has not yet been addressed in the literature is the development of mechanisms for monitoring norm compliance under partial action observability. This paper proposes the reconstruction of unobserved actions to tackle this problem. In particular, we formalise the problem of reconstructing unobserved actions, and propose an information model and algorithms for monitoring norms under partial action observability using two different processes for reconstructing unobserved actions. Our evaluation shows that reconstructing unobserved actions increases significantly the number of norm violations and fulfilments detected.Comment: Accepted at the IEEE Transaction on Cybernetic