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Power in Norm Negotiation

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In social mechanism design, norm negotiation creates individual or contractual obligations fulfilling goals of the agents. The social delegation cycle distinguishes among social goal negotiation, obligation and sanction negotiation and norm acceptance. Power may affect norm negotiation in various ways, and we therefore introduce a new formalization of the social delegation cycle based on power and dependence, without referring to the rule structure of norms, actions, decision variables, tasks, and so on.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica - Università di Torino, Italy

    Guido Boella

  2. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Leendert van der Torre

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Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Adam Grzech Robert J. Howlett Lakhmi C. Jain

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Boella, G., van der Torre, L. (2007). Power in Norm Negotiation. In: Nguyen, N.T., Grzech, A., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4496. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72830-6_45

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