Norm Monitoring Through Observation Sharing

The behavior of agents in multi-agent systems is hard to control without restricting the agents’ autonomy. Normative organizations have been deployed successfully to deal with this. A core requirement of a normative organization is that norm violations can be observed and dealt with. Due to the distributed nature of multi-agent systems it is often fitting that this is done decentrally. In this paper we discuss a decentralized method to monitor whether norms are violated in a multi-agent system. The setting we consider is one where the organization depends on a network of monitors that share observations among each other.