ICMAS '96: Norms, Obligations, and Conventions

Other difficult tasks, more generally, are how to obtain a robust performance in teamworks (Cohen and Levesque 1990); how to prevent agents from dropping their commitments; or better, how to regulate agents dropping their commitments to a joint action to not disrupt the common activity and preclude the common goal being achieved (Jennings 1995; Singh 1995; Kinny and Georgeff 1991). These tasks have now entered the MAS field's common knowledge. Other problems are perhaps less obvious. The Second International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS '96) Workshop on Norms, Obligations, and Conventions was held in Kyoto, Japan, from 10 to 13 December 1996. Participants included scientists from deontic logic, database framework, decision theory, agent architecture, cognitive modeling, and legal expert systems.