Norm Monitoring Through Observation Sharing.
Bas Testerink, Mehdi M. Dastani, John‐Jules Ch. Meyer · 2014
Abstract. The behavior of agents in multi-agent systems is hard to con-trol without restricting the agents ’ autonomy. Normative organizations have been deployed successfully to deal with this. A core requirement of a normative organization is that norm violations can be observed and dealt with. Due to the distributed nature of multi-agent systems it is of-ten fitting that this is done decentrally. In this paper we discuss a decen-tralized method to monitor whether norms are violated in a multi-agent system. The setting we consider is one where the organization depends on a network of monitors that share observations among each other. 1