Norm-governed practical reasoning agents

Summary

This thesis describes a model of norm-governed practical reasoning agents that are able to take normative positions into account during practical reasoning and demonstrates the implementation of this model in the form of the NoA Normative Agent language and architecture.

Keywords

Normative, Norm (philosophy), Autonomous agent, Flexibility (engineering), Computer science

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