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In multi-agent applications, normative systems are usually used to regulate the behavior of the agents. They provide an efficient means to ensure limited deviations from an expected ideal behavior. Many works have been done in this classical research direction, less frequent are the works on norms in simulation. In this paper we focus on the simulation of spatially situated agents, typically moving around simulated physical environments. Our goal is to provide a mechanism allowing an efficient generation of consistent agents characteristics. We propose to model behavioral differentiation as violations of the norms, and show its application to traffic simulation with the driving simulation software used at Renault, scaner TM.
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Lacroix, B., Mathieu, P., Kemeny, A. (2009). The Use of Norms Violations to Model Agents Behavioral Variety. In: Hübner, J.F., Matson, E., Boissier, O., Dignum, V. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV . COIN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5428. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00443-8_15
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