Deliberate normative agents : principles and architecture
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Frank P. M. Dignum, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur · 2000
. In this paper norms are assumed to be useful in agent societies. It is claimed that not only following norms, but also the possibility of `intelligent' norm violation can be useful. Principles for agents that are able to behave deliberately on the basis of explicitly represented norms are identified and an architecture is introduced. Using this agent architecture, norms can be communicated, adopted and used as meta-goals on the agent's own processes. As such they have impact on deliberation about goal generation, goal selection, plan generation and plan selection. 1 Introduction Besides autonomy, an important characteristic of agents is that they can react to a changing environment. However, if the protocols that they use to react to (at least some part of) the environment are fixed, they have no ways to respond to impredictable changes. For instance, if an agent notices that another agent is cheating it cannot switch to another protocol to protect itself. (At least this is ...