@inproceedings{0e32084acdf54a87a6489bf444ec0a19,
title = "Severity-Sensitive Robustness Analysis in Normative Systems",
abstract = "Norms specify ideal behaviour. Agents, however, are autonomous, and may fail to comply with the ideal. Contrary to Duty obligations can be used to specify reparational behaviour that mitigates the effects of a violation. In addition to specifying reparational behaviours, it is important to understand how robust a system is against possible violations. Depending on what kind of system property we want to preserve, non-compliance with different norms may be of varying severity. We propose a method for analysing robustness of normative systems, with support for Contrary to Duty obligations. We introduce violation severity as a concept orthogonal to reparational behaviour and specify it by means of a partial order over norms. We use this severity partial order, together with normative specifications, to rank the possible worlds from the most to the least compliant. In this way, we are able to use model checking to analyse robustness to a certain severity, or whether it is possible to achieve a certain goal, without violating any norm of a given severity.",
keywords = "model checker, preference relation, unmanned ariel vehicle, normative system, linear temporal logic",
author = "Luca Gasparini and Norman, {Timothy J} and Kollingbaum, {Martin J} and Liang Chen",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_5",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-25419-7",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer ",
pages = "72--88",
editor = "A Ghose and A Oren and N Telang and P Thangarajah",
booktitle = "Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X",
note = "The 17th International Workshop on Coordination, Organisations, Institutions and Norms (COIN 2014) ; Conference date: 06-05-2014",
}