ICMAS '96: Norms, Obligations, and Conventions

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. This article summarizes the contributions chosen for presentation and their links to these areas.