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Simulating the emergence of norms in different scenarios

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This paper deals with EMIL-S, a software tool box which was designed during the EMIL project for the simulation of processes during which norms emerged in an agent society. This tool box implements the cognitive architecture of normative agents which was designed during the EMIL project which is also discussed in other papers in this issue. This implementation is described in necessary detail, and two examples of its application to several different scenarios are given, namely a scenario in which persons involved in micro finance are simulated and learn how to sanction free riders and how to learn from these sanctions, and a scenario in which simulated persons move through a simulated airport where they more often than not have to wait in queues and learn how to behave properly in queues.

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  1. Meanwhile a fifth scenario was described in Markisic et al. (2012) which uses the logical and software architecture of EMIL for a model of ethnic conflicts in former Yugoslavia.

  2. As the main message of this and other diagrams is the cumulative effect of the norm invocation and adaptation, these graphs are shown instead of graphs which show what happens in the individual quarters.

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Acknowledgments

Most of the work done for this paper was accomplished during the project “Emergence in the Loop—Simulating the Two-Way Dynamics of Norm Innovation” funded by the European Union in its Sixth Framework Programme under grant no. 033841. Section 4 goes back to Pablo Lucas’ work, the implementation in EMIL-S was done by our student Manuel Pauli, Sect. 5 goes back to Marco Campennì’s work, and the EMIL-S implementation was done by our students Steffi Henn, Peyman Jazayeri, Magnus Oberhausen, Mehmet-Hadi Tohum and Jannik Weyrich.

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    Ulf Lotzmann, Michael Möhring & Klaus G. Troitzsch

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Lotzmann, U., Möhring, M. & Troitzsch, K.G. Simulating the emergence of norms in different scenarios. Artif Intell Law 21, 109–138 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-012-9130-y

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