Social rules for agent systems
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When creating (open) agent systems it has become common practice to use social concepts such as social practices, norms and conventions to model the way the interactions between the agents are regulated. However, in the literature most papers concentrate on only one of these aspects at the time. Therefore there is hardly any research on how these social concepts relate and when each of them emerges or evolves from another concept. In this paper we will investigate some of the relations between these concepts and also whether they are fundamentally stemming from a single social object or should be seen as different types of objects altogether.
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