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ATAL 1999: Intelligent Agents VI. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages pp 364–378Cite as

Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture

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In this paper norms are assumed to be useful in agent societies. It is claimed that not only following norms, but also the possibility of ‘intelligent’ norm violation can be useful. Principles for agents that are able to behave deliberatively on the basis of explicitly represented norms are identified and an architecture is introduced. Using this agent architecture, norms can be communicated, adopted and used as meta-goals on the agent’s own processes. As such they have impact on deliberation about goal generation, goal selection, plan generation and plan selection.

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  1. National Research Council – Institute of Psychology, Division of AI, Cognitive Modelling and Interaction, PSCS – Social Simulation Project, Viale Marx, 15-00137, Roma, Italy

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

  3. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Catholijn M. Jonker & Jan Treur

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  1. School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK

    Nicholas R. Jennings

  2. Department of Computer Science, York University , M3J 1P3, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Castelfranchi, C., Dignum, F., Jonker, C.M., Treur, J. (2000). Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture. In: Jennings, N.R., Lespérance, Y. (eds) Intelligent Agents VI. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. ATAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10719619_27

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