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Normative Deliberation in Graded BDI Agents

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Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2010)

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Norms have been employed as a coordination mechanism for Open MAS, but to become effective, they must be internalized by agents; i.e. these agents must be able to accept norms while maintaining their autonomy. Nevertheless, traditional BDI agent architectures only represent beliefs, intentions and desires. In this paper, the multi-context BDI agent architecture has been extended with a recognition context and a normative context in order to allow agents to acquire norms from their environment and consider norms in their decisions.

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Criado, N., Argente, E., Botti, V. (2010). Normative Deliberation in Graded BDI Agents. In: Dix, J., Witteveen, C. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16178-0_7

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