Similarly to institutions in human societies, an Electronic Institution (EI) provides a structured
framework for a Multi-Agent System (MAS) to regulate agents' interactions. However, current …

In the agents' literature, norms have been studied from multiple perspectives, but while
formalisations tend to be disconnected from possible implementations due to the lack of …

The design of fiducials for precise image registration is of major practical importance in
computer vision, especially in automatic inspection applications. We analyze the sub-pixel …

Everyday uses of the notion of institution and some typical institutions have been studied
and formalized by economists and philosophers. Borrowing from these everyday …

This chapter addresses the problem of building normative multi-agent systems in terms of
regulatory mechanisms. It describes a static conceptual model through which one can …

Normative environments are used to regulate multi-agent interactions. In business
encounters, agents representing business entities make contracts including norms that …

Agreement Technologies are needed for autonomous agents to come to mutually
acceptable agreements, typically on behalf of humans. These technologies include trust …

An institution typically comprises constitutive rules, which give shape and meaning to social
interactions and regulative rules, which prescribe agent behaviour in the society. Regulative …

The ANTE framework encompasses results of research efforts on three main agreement
technology concepts, namely negotiation, normative environments and computational trust …

There are B2B relationships that presume cooperation in contract enactment. This issue
should be taken into account when modeling, for computational handling, contractual …