Introduction: Agents and Norms: How to fill the gap?

− language and formalisms used (mostly logic-based in the legal domain and more oriented to implementation languages in the multi-agent domain); − theories of reference (philosophy of law and deontic philosophy in the former domain, as opposed to agent theory and game theory in the latter); − objectives(models of legal institutions, legal information systems, in the former, as opposed to social theory and optimization of coordination and cooperation in the latter); − underlying philosophyand concept of a norm (mainly interpreted in the legal, institutional sense in the former, and as a social, customary norm or convention in the latter).

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