Encouraging normative smoking behaviour

Verifying Normative Behaviour via Normative Mechanism Design

The environment is an essential component of multi-agent systems and is often used to coordinate the behaviour of individual agents. Recently many languages have been proposed to specify and implement multi-agent environments in terms of social and normative concepts. In this paper, we first introduce a formal setting of multi-agent environment which abstracts from concrete specification langua...

Normative behaviour in Wikipedia

This paper contributes to the debate about governance behaviour in on-line communities, particularly those associated with Open Source. It addresses evidence of normative self-regulation by analysing the discussion pages of a sample of Wikipedia Controversial and Featured articles. The assumption is that attempts by editors to influence one another within these pages will be revealed by their u...

Designing Normative Behaviour Via Landmarks

In highly regulated environments, where a set of norms defines accepted behaviour, protocols provide a way to reduce complexity by giving direct, step by step guidelines for behaviour, as long as the protocols comply with the norms. In this work we propose a formal framework to design a protocol from a normative specification. In order to be able to connect (descriptive) norms with (operational...

Simulating Normative Behaviour And Norm Formation Processes

This paper describes the design of an agent model for simulating normative behaviour and norm formation processes. The model is based on a scientific theory of norm innovation, provided by the FP6 project EMIL (EMergence In the Loop). The main focus of the paper is the conversion of the theoretical framework towards a software implementation that can be applied for multiple simulation scenarios...

Opening the window of opportunity: encouraging patients to stop smoking.