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@MISC{Boman99normsin,
author = {Magnus Boman},
title = {Norms in Artificial Decision Making},
year = {1999}
}
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. A method for forcing norms onto individual agents in a multi-agent system is presented. The agents under study are supersoft agents: autonomous artificial agents programmed to represent and evaluate vague and imprecise information. Agents are further assumed to act in accordance with advice obtained from a normative decision module, with which they can communicate. Norms act as global constraints on the evaluations performed in the decision module and hence no action that violates a norm will be suggested to any agent. Further constraints on action may then be added locally. The method strives to characterise real-time decision making in agents, in the presence of risk and uncertainty. 1. Introduction Artificial agents have been making decisions for some years now, the fact that questions of responsibility and other judicial matters are still open notwithstanding. Their guiding principle has usually been that of maximising their expected utility (PMEU, for short). Wherever there is r...
