| Title | Friends No More: Norm Enforcement in Multi-Agent Systems |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2007 |
| Authors | Bas APerreau de, Sierra C, Schorlemmer M |
| Editor | Durfee E.H, Yokoo M. |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2007) |
| Pagination | 640-642 |
| Abstract | An agent normative society has to deal with two main con- cerns: how to define norms and how to enforce them. En- forcement becomes a complex issue as agent societies be- come more decentralized and open. We propose a new dis- tributed mechanism to enforce norms by ostracizing agents that do not abide by them. Our simulations have shown that, although complete ostracism is not always possible, the mechanism substantially reduces the number of norm violations. |
