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Publications associées (4)

An Institutional Approach to Normative Distributed Robotics for Mixed Societies of Humans and Robots

Alicja Barbara Roelofsen

We are entering the era of robots, for everyone, everywhere. The expectations of the robots being reliable, intelligent and friendly artificial creatures drive the key challenges of the state-of-the-art robotics: technological, practical and social. The la ...

EPFL2020

Towards Norm Realization in Institutions Mediating Human-Robot Societies

Alcherio Martinoli, Alicja Barbara Roelofsen

Social norms are the understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society. As such, they regulate communication, cooperation and other social interactions. Robots capable of reasoning about social norms are more likely to be recognized as an ext ...

2018

Voting on the Environment: Price or Ideology? Evidence from Swiss Referendums

Nicholas Bornstein

Studies on preferences for environmental quality usually posit that price and income explain most of the observed choices. However, we argue that conceptions of social norms and the common good are equally important when analyzing environmental voting outc ...

2008

Three essays on the acceptability of environmental policy in Switzerland

Nicholas Bornstein

The present thesis studies the acceptability of environmental policy in Switzerland. The first part of the thesis concentrates on citizens' demand for environmental quality at ballots. The analysis is guided by the public choice framework, which is rooted ...

EPFL2007