The Dutch eat at 5:30 pm: shared strategies for agent reasoning
Amineh Ghorbani, Huib Aldewereld, Virginia Dignum, Pablo Noriega · Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems · 2012
In the Netherlands, almost all people have dinner around 5:30pm. As a foreigner in that country, it is almost impossible to plan a (working) meeting around this time, which would be a 'normal' time in many other countries. On the other hand, having dinner that early is not an obligation. No one will be offended or would even care if you choose to eat later. This is an example of a shared strategy, i.e. an institutional arrangement where different actors have the intention of performing the same task at a certain time or setting [4].