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The values shared within a society influence the (social) behaviour of the agents in that society. This connection goes through implicit and explicit norms. Agents act in situations where different, possibly conflicting, norms are applicable. In the case of a norm conflict, an agent will decide to comply with one or more of the applicable norms, while violating others. Our interest is how the type of the norms may play a role in such decision, and take the chosen behaviour of an agent to depend on a personal preference order on the norm types.
We distinguish three different types of norms: legal norms, social norms and private norms. We use the introduction of the law prohibiting smoking in cafes as illustration: we present a simulation of this situation involving agents’ preferences over different norm types. The results of this simulation are used for an explorative a model for normative reasoning based on norm types. We discuss a possible connection between the composition of a society in terms of these profiles and its culture and the relevance of the model with respect to value sensitive design of socio-technological systems.
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Dechesne, F., Dignum, V., Tan, YH. (2012). Understanding Compliance Differences between Legal and Social Norms: The Case of Smoking Ban. In: Dechesne, F., Hattori, H., ter Mors, A., Such, J.M., Weyns, D., Dignum, F. (eds) Advanced Agent Technology. AAMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7068. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27216-5_5
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