Norm internalization in artificial societies

Self-Policing Through Norm Internalization: A Cognitive Solution to the Tragedy of the Digital Commons in Social Networks

Evolution of Cooperation in Social Dilemmas: Signaling Internalized Norms

The article suggests a new explanation for cooperation in large, unstructured societies that avoids the restrictions required in most previous attempts. Our explanation deals with the role of internalized norms. Even internalized norms, i.e. norms that alter the perceived utility from acting in a cooperative or uncooperative way, will not help to overcome a dilemma in an unstructured society, u...

****animation of Open Agent Societies****

E-commerce, Virtual Enterprises and digital media rights management are examples of important application domains where independently developed information systems must form coherent and stable "societies". Societies are considered stable if the behaviour and the interactions of the members are norm-governed. To investigate such normative behaviour we propose a new formal model of open artifici...

Internalizing Norms: A Cognitive Model of (Social) Norms' Internalization

Internalization is at study in social-behavioural sciences and moral philosophy; lately, the debate was revamped within the rationality approach to the study of cooperation and compliance because internalization is a less costly and more reliable enforcement system than social control. But how does it work? So far, poor attention was paid to mental underpinnings of internalization. This article...

Obligation Norm Identification in Agent Societies

Most works on norms have investigated how norms are regulated using institutional mechanisms. Very few works have focused on how an agent may infer the norms of a society without the norm being explicitly given to the agent. This paper describes a mechanism for identifying one type of norm, an obligation norm. The Obligation Norm Inference (ONI) algorithm described in this paper makes use of an...