Lopez-Sanchez, Maite

Morales, Javier

Rodriguez-Aguilar, Juan A.

Vasconcelos, Wamberto

Wooldridge, Michael

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

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Most normative systems make use of explicit representations of norms (namely, obligations, prohibitions, and permissions) and associated mechanisms to support the self-regulation of open societies of self-interested and autonomous agents. A key problem in research on normative systems is that of how to synthesise effective and efficient norms. Manually designing norms is time consuming and error prone. An alternative is to automatically synthesise norms. However, norm synthesis is a computationally complex problem. We present a novel online norm synthesis mechanism, designed to synthesise compact normative systems. It yields normative systems composed of concise (simple) norms that effectively coordinate a multiagent system (MAS) without lapsing into overregulation. Our mechanism is based on a central authority that monitors a MAS, searching for undesired states. After detecting undesirable states, the central authority then synthesises norms aimed to avoid them in the future.We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through experimental results. © 2015 ACM.This work was funded by AT (CONSOLIDER CSD2007-0022), EVE (TIN2009-14702-C02-01,TIN2009-14702-C02-02), COR (TIN2012-38876-C02-01/02), MECER (201250E053), and the Generalitat of Catalunya (2009-SGR-1434). Michael Wooldridge was supported by the ERC under advanced grant 291528 (“RACE”)Peer Reviewe

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