Modelling Norms

The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of agent-based modelling for the study of these micro-macro interactions. Existing agent-based

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The second of a four-volume set of conference proceedings. This one covers modelling transport systems, with 35 papers organized hierarchically on traffic models, urban models, regional models, and national models.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly reviewed joint postprocessings of two international workshops on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, [email protected] 2010, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2010 and [email protected] 2010, held in Lyon, France in August 2010. The 20 revised full papers presented went through several rounds

Traditionally, The representation of (legal) knowledge in knowledge-based systems has been dictated by the available representation methods, which often impose undue restrictions. Moreover, The traditional approach generally results in undesired task-dependencies. Frame-Based Conceptual Models of Statute Law presents a different approach: instead of using the standard methods, The book sets

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Who are the censors of foreign literature? What motives influence them as they patrol the boundaries between cultures? Can cuts and changes sometimes save a book? What difference does it make when the text is for children, or designed for schools? These and other questions are explored in this wide-ranging