@conference {2945, title = {Infection-Based Norm Emergence in Multi-Agent Complex Networks}, booktitle = {18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2008}, pages = {891-892}, publisher = {IOS Press}, organization = {IOS Press}, abstract = {We propose a computational model that facilitates agents in a MAS to collaboratively evolve their norms to reach the best norm conventions. Our approach borrows from the social contagion phenomenon to exploit the notion of positive infection: agents with good behaviors become infectious to spread their norms in the agent society. By combining infection and innovation, our computational model helps a MAS establish better norm conventions even when a sub-optimal one has fully settled in the population.}, author = {Norman Salazar-Ramirez and Juan A. Rodr{\'\i}guez-Aguilar and Josep Lluis Arcos}, editor = {M. Ghallab, C.D. Spyropoulos, and N. Avouris} }