Hi, for information on current work in agent research on norms, check out the October 2006 double special issue of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (http://www.springerlink.com/content/1572-9346/). Regards, Harko Verhagen Rui Lopes skrev: > Hi!, > > My name is Rui Lopes and I'm a M.Sc Student of Computer Science in the > University of Coimbra. I am working in ECoS, CISUC > (http://cisuc.dei.uc.pt/ecos/) for one year and hale, ina project on > Models of Territorial Self-organisation - MATer > (http://cisuc.dei.uc.pt/ecos/view_project.php?id_p=54). Now I am also > working on my dissertation on the Emergence and Propagation of Norms > and Beliefs and recently I have joined this list. The aim of > dissertation is to "upgrade" the simulation that results from MATer > with agents that recognize and reason about beliefs and norms to study > the emergence of norms and beliefs and how those propagate in real > world territories. > After some research I am decided to build BDI based agents. MATer uses > Repast and I'm thinking in use Jason or Jadex for the reasoning of the > agents. I have also looked at others like 3APL, Jess, etc but they > seem less appropriate. > I have read on several frameworks for modeling norms and beliefs, but > most of them are only theoretical models. I didn't understand quite > well if modal or deontic logic are an obligation in such a system and > if there are proper tools to embed this kind of reasoning into a > toolkit like repast. > I would appreciate some counseling on the toolkits/languages to use on > my simulation as also as references and readings on implemented models > of norms and beliefs. > > Thank you very much in advance, > Rui Lopes > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.