Documented Norms and Conventions on the Internet

Norms and conventions in collaborative systems

In recent years, the Internet has emerged as a new social medium for online participants to initiate contacts, establish relationships and develop social interactions with others independent of geographical location or the need for physical presence. Aspects of these virtual environments that may mirror the physical world include the establishment and application of rules or social guidelines t...

ICMAS '96: Norms, Obligations, and Conventions

tant will behave as a shark with regard to potential partners, always looking for the most convenient transaction, thereby infringing on existing commitments. Other difficult tasks, more generally, are how to obtain a robust performance in teamworks (Cohen and Levesque 1990); how to prevent agents from dropping their commitments ; or better, how to regulate agents dropping their commitments to ...

Building Social Norms on the Internet

Simulating Conventions and Norms under Local Interactions and Imitation

This paper is based on Ille 2013. Both papers analyze the same model, but in contrast, this paper does not provide an analytical solution but rather resorts to simulations. This allows the reader, who is familiar with the former article, to retrace the results more thoroughly and without the requirement of a sophisticated mathematical background. Additionally, this paper illustrates the dynamic...

Trends, fashions, patterns, norms, conventions . . . and hypertext too

This article describes the theoretical approach behind the InCommonSense system. This approach makes use of writing conventions on the Web. The theory behind InCommonSense is based on research findings from the fields of linguistics, psychology, HCI, sociology, and information retrieval. The theoretical background for finding and reusing conventions in hypertext is discussed, and the possibilit...