The purpose is to explore how norm-governed behavior within agent societies can be achieved in the context of Virtual Enterprises. We analyze a number of formal models from the agent research field, of which three models focus on the society aspects and three models focus on norms. A general observation is that the models reviewed are not concordant with each other and therefore require further alignment. A number of additions that may enrich the norm-focused models are suggested. It is also concluded that the introduction of different types of norms on different levels can be applied to ensure sound collaboration in agent-supported virtual enterprises. Moreover, the deployment of norm defender and promoter functionality is suggested to ensure norm compliance and punishments of norm violations.
@InProceedings{davidson_et_al:DagSemProc.07122.7, author = {Davidson, Paul and Jacobsson, Andreas}, title = {{Aligning Models of Normative Systems and Artificial Societies: Towards norm-governed behavior in virtual enterprises}}, booktitle = {Normative Multi-agent Systems}, pages = {1--12}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2007}, volume = {7122}, editor = {Guido Boella and Leon van der Torre and Harko Verhagen}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07122.7}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-9082}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.07122.7}, annote = {Keywords: Agents, norms, virtual enterprises} }
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