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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
>
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