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Norms are being used in multi-agent systems as a powerful abstraction to capture social constraints. Norms regulate the behavior of the agents by describing the actions that can be performed, actions that must be performed, and actions that cannot be performed. One of the main challenges on design and implementation of normative systems is that norms may conflict with one another. Although there are several works that contribute to the checking and solving conflicts between norms, there is still a need for approaches able to check for conflicts when such conflicts are only detected when analyzing the application domain. Without considering the application domain it is not possible to identify conflicts that, for instance, regulate the execution of different, but related actions, executed by different, but related entities. In this paper we present an approach bases the checking for conflicts between the norms on the description of the application.
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By abstract action we mean the action that cannot be executed since it does only define the goals to be achieved when it is executed but no implementation is provided.
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In this paper we are not dealing with partial fulfillment.
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da Silva, V.T., Zahn, J. (2014). Normative Conflicts that Depend on the Domain. In: Balke, T., Dignum, F., van Riemsdijk, M., Chopra, A. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems IX. COIN 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8386. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_17
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