Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dastani, Mehdi
• Meyer, John-Jules
• Tinnemeier, Nick

Titel

Programming norm change

Ist Teil von

• Journal of applied non-classical logics, 2012-06, Vol.22 (1-2), p.151-180

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To adequately deal with unpredictable and dynamic environments, normative frameworks typically deployed in mechanisms for modifying the norms at runtime are crucial. We present the syntax and operational semantics of programming constructs to facilitate runtime norm modification, allowing a programmer to specify when and how the norms may be changed by external agents or by the normative mechanism. The norms take on the form of conditional obligations and prohibitions, instantiating obligations and prohibitions. We present rule-based constructs for runtime modification of the norms and their instances, and a mechanism for automatically updating the instances when their underlying norms change. Moreover, we investigate a mechanism for avoiding norm conflicts.