Deliberate Normative Agents

Abstract

Agent theories have developed concepts and methodologies that can be a pplied for having a better understanding of reasoning about obligations. This work proposes an agent-based framework for modeling obligations and norms: agents are able to deal with norms and to decide autonomously whether to respect them or not. The key idea is that the addressee of the norm explicitly models the agent who watches on the norms and who can sanction him.