Negative Norms Detection Technique in Open Normative Multi-agent Systems

Muhsen Hammoud, Alicia Y. C. Tang, Azhana Ahmad

2016

Abstract

Social norms main objective is to regulate autonomous agents’ behaviour in an open normative multi-agent system. Norms in these societies are dynamically created and disappeared according to the society’s needs. Consequently, norms effects on agents or on the environment are not observable at the moment of creation. Norms practicing consequences might be either positive, like increasing the educational level of a society by conducting social discussions. Or negative, like causing money loss in gambling. Or the norm might have neutral consequences. In this paper, we propose a technique to detect negative norms in an open normative multi-agent system. Our technique has two main stages: i) Observation and ii) Analysis. The observation stage relies on the overhearing approach of monitoring where the messages that are exchanged between agents are observable. All observations are then analysed in order to detect negative norms. Negativity of a norm is based on its effect on agents or on the environment. In this technique, we adopted ATN concept to represent norms. This technique is implemented using Java and JADE. Testing results of this technique shows that it works properly, and detects negative norms according to the defined negativity threshold.

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Hammoud M., Tang A. and Ahmad A. (2016). Negative Norms Detection Technique in Open Normative Multi-agent Systems . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-172-4, pages 241-249. DOI: 10.5220/0005654502410249


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@conference{icaart16,
author={Muhsen Hammoud and Alicia Y. C. Tang and Azhana Ahmad},
title={Negative Norms Detection Technique in Open Normative Multi-agent Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2016},
pages={241-249},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005654502410249},
isbn={978-989-758-172-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - Negative Norms Detection Technique in Open Normative Multi-agent Systems
SN - 978-989-758-172-4
AU - Hammoud M.
AU - Tang A.
AU - Ahmad A.
PY - 2016
SP - 241
EP - 249
DO - 10.5220/0005654502410249