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An ontology of social control tools

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In multi-agent systems, social commitments are increasingly used to capture roles, social norms, the semantics of agent communication as well as other inter-agent dependencies. Those systems rest on the assumption that agents respect their commitments. In this paper, we present an ontology of sanctions and punishment philosophies which are required ingredients of any social control mechanism susceptible to fosters agents' compliance with the commitments they create.

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AAMAS '06: Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
May 2006
1631 pages
ISBN:1595933034
DOI:10.1145/1160633
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