Norm Refinement - Informing the Re-negotiation of Contracts

Kollingbaum, M J and Norman, T J and Preece, A and Sleeman, D (2006) Norm Refinement - Informing the Re-negotiation of Contracts. In Boella, G and Boissier, O and Matson, E and Vazquez-Salceda, J, Eds. Proceedings Proceedings of the Workshop on Coordination, Organisation, Institutions and Norms COIN, ECAI 2006, pages pp. 46-51.

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Conflicts between norms are a common problem in open Virtual Organisations and has to be dealt with. Norm-governed agents that populate such VO’s can remain operational only if they are able to resolve such conflicts. In this paper, we discuss how norm-governed agents based on the NoA architecture identify such conflicts and how the NoA model of norm conflicts can inform a re-negotiation of contracts and norms.

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