  For being potentially destructive, in practice incomprehensible and for the
most unintelligible, contemporary technology is setting high challenges on our
society. New conception methods are urgently required. Reorganizing ideas and
discussions presented in AI and related fields, this position paper aims to
highlight the importance of normware--that is, computational artifacts
specifying norms--with respect to these issues, and argues for its
irreducibility with respect to software by making explicit its neglected
ecological dimension in the decision-making cycle.

Artificial Intelligence