This paper examines the decentralized recognition of groups within a multiagent normative society. In this work we explore different mechanisms that allow agents to recognize the others as members of a certain social group. Considering as the basic mechanism the one that makes agents interact with other agents without considering the previous interactions and with no communication, three new al...

Norm-aware agents are able to reason about the obligations, permissions and prohibitions that affect their operation. While much work has focused on the creation of such norm-aware agents, less effort has been placed on enabling system designers and users to understand the interactions between norms. Providing designers with such an understanding can aid in eliminating redundant norms and error...

functionals were discovered and used by volterra over a century ago in his study of the motions of viscous elastic materials and electromagnetic fields. the need to precisely account for the qualitative effects of the cohesion and shape of the domains of these functionals was the major impetus to the development of the branch of mathematics known as topology, and today large numbers of mathemat...

We present a procedure for the construction of multi-valued t-norms and t-conorms. Our procedure makes use of a pair of single-valued t-norms and the respective dual t-conorms and produces interval-valued t-norms u and t-conorms t. In this manner we combine desirable characteristics of different t-norms and t-conorms; if we use the t-norm ∧ and t-conorm ∨, then (X,u,t) is a superlattice, i.e. t...