Regulative and Constitutive Norms in Normative Multiagent Systems
Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre · 2004
In this paper we introduce a formal framework for the con-struction of normative multiagent systems, based on Searle’s notion of the construction of social reality. Within the struc-ture of normative multiagent systems we distinguish between regulative norms that describe obligations, prohibitions and permissions, and constitutive norms that regulate the creation of institutional facts as well as the modification of the norma-tive system itself. Using the metaphor of normative systems as agents, we attribute mental attitudes to the normative sys-tem. In particular, we formalize regulative norms as goals of the normative system, and constitutive norms as beliefs of the normative system. Agents reason about norm creation using recursive modelling.