Program
Every participant is invited to
- Submit at least one short position paper (in at least one chapter)
- Submit a short rejoinder comment to the other short papers in the chapter (thus contribute to a summation of the positions on the area)
- Attend the workshop
- Contribute towards a consensus on the topics discussed during the workshop
- Contribute revised or new position papers for the workshop follow-up volume
- Submit an article to one of the special issues on Normative Multi-agent Systems in the Journal of Logic and Computation or the Journal of AI & Law
Chapters and Coordinators
- On normative MAS (Coord. Guido Boella)
Interplay in the use of conventional legal and deontic ideas in multi-agent systems. What is specific about Norms when used in the context of MAS. What constitutes a normative multi-agent system.
- The use and meaning of norms in MAS (Coord. Giovanni Sartor)
Types of norms, strengths of directives or norms, components of normative systems, subjective vs legislative views. Trust, social environment, legal frameworks,... Contrast MAS vs. Legal, social sciences, economics perspectives.
- Normative consequence (inference) (Coord. Leon Van Der Torre)
Deontic logics, defeasible reasoning; coherence; argumentation.
- A computational view of norms (Coord. Mehdi Dastani)
Structure of norms (syntax, networks of norms, para-normative elements); expressiveness of normative languages; automated reasoning; normative programming languages; algorithmic and scalability issues,...
- Regulated MAS (the social perspective) (Coord. Pablo Noriega)
Closed vs Open systems; coordination artefacts, institutions, organizational views of MAS, situated norms; environment vs. infrastructure vs normative framework; anchoring, entitlements and enforcement; norm dynamics; norm effectiveness/utility; implementation issues.
- Norm compliance (the individual's perspective) (Coord. Guido Governatori)
Norm aware agent architectures, adoption of norms, compliance and non-compliance, justification, blame assignment, punishment and incentives. Motivational and emotional aspects.
- Normative "phenomena" (Coord. Giulia Andrighetto)
Emergence, adoption, immersion, social norms, social rewards.
- Agent-based simulation (Coord. Mario Paolucci)
Normative MAS to model social phenomena. Methodological aspects; Tools. Approaches: game theory, complex systems, swarms, evolutionary computing,
- Trust (Coord. Simon Parsons)
Fostering trust with norms, overregulation and trust, constitutive norms. Bottom-up norm-enforcement, social devices that foster compliance: sanctions, reputation, whitewashing. Devices that increase trust: bonds, escrow, best practices, due process.
- Normative uses (Coord. Munindar Singh)
Negotiation and argumentation; Automatic contracting: Other applications: Security and related topics (policy and dynamics, digital rights); Standards, opportunities; tools; gaming; web services; mechanism design; electronic marketplaces;,...