Normative Multi Agent Systems and Normative Architectures: The Emergence of Norms in Artificial

Traditionally, the scientific domain of norma-tive agent systems presents two main directions of research. The first is focused on intelligent agent architectures, and in particular on norma-tive agents and their capacity to decide on the grounds of norms and the associated incentive or sanction. The second is focused on much simpler agents and the emergence of regulari-ties from agent societies. Very often, social scientific study of norms goes back to the philosophical tradition that defines norms as regularities emerging from reciprocal expectations (Bicchieri, 2006; Ep-stein, 2006). Indeed, interesting sociological works (Oliver, 1996) point to norms as publi