Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...
We report on a case study in the emergence of a lexicon in a group of autonomous distributed agents situated and grounded in an open environment. Because the agents are autonomous,...
Norms constitute a powerful coordination mechanism among heterogeneous agents. We propose means to specify and explicitly manage the normative positions of agents (permissions, pro...
— Our aim is to explore the fundamental stability issues of a robotic vehicle carrying out localization, mapping, and feedback control in a perturbation-filled environment. Moti...
NoA is an agent architecture that supports the development of agents motivated by norms: obligations, permissions and prohibitions. Obligations motivate a normative agent to act: ...