Reasoning About Norms under Uncertainty in Dynamic Environments

7^th October 2014, 13:00 Ashton Lecture Theater
Dr Natalia Criado Pacheco
Department of Computing and Mathematical Science
John Moores Univerisity, Liverpool

Abstract

One of the main goals of the agent community is to provide a trustworthy technology that allows humans to delegate some specific tasks to software agents. Frequently, laws and social norms regulate these tasks. As a consequence, agents need mechanisms for reasoning about these norms. Up until now the existing proposals on normative agents assume that agents interact within a deterministic environment that is certainly perceived. In practice, agents interact by means of sensors and actuators under uncertainty with non-deterministic and dynamic environments. In this talk, I will present my work on normative agents that are able to deal with uncertainty in dynamic environments