Deliberative normative agents
Frank Dignum
University of Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Thursday, 9th September 1999
1100 - 1200
SEECS library (room B1.24)
University of Melbourne Computer Science Department
SEECS Building
221 Bouverie Street, Carlton.
Abstract:
In this presentation norms are assumed to be useful in agent societies,
but it is also claimed that the possibility of intelligent norm violation
can be useful. Principles for agents that are able to behave deliberately
on the basis of explicitly represented norms are identified and an architecture
is introduced. Using this agent architecture, norms can be communicated,
adopted and used as meta-goals on the agents own processes. As such
they have impact on deliberation about goal generation, goal selection,
plan generation and plan selection. The architecture is operational
within the distributed DESIRE software environment, of which some features
will also be shown during the presentation.
Biosketch:
Frank Dignum is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the Technical
University of Eindhoven. His research interests include autonomous
systems, agent communication languages, electronic commerce and deontic
logic.