Abstract
Agent-based Modelling offers strong prospects in the context of institutional modelling, which, from historical perspective, centres around the question of how far institutional instruments might have affected social and economic outcomes. To provide a richer representation of the institution formation process in the context of social simulation, we propose a norm generalisation process that uses an extended version of Crawford and Ostrom’s institutional grammar and incorporates aspects from the area of social psychology. We believe that this approach offers a good compromise between generalisability and modelling detail. We briefly showcase this approach in the context of a scenario from the area of institutional economics to highlight its explanatory power.
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Frantz, C.K., Purvis, M.K., Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Nowostawski, M. (2014). Modelling Dynamic Normative Understanding in Agent Societies. In: Dam, H.K., Pitt, J., Xu, Y., Governatori, G., Ito, T. (eds) PRIMA 2014: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8861. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13191-7_24
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