Altruistic punishment (or punishment) has been extensively shown as an important
mechanism for promoting cooperation in human societies. In AI, the emergence of …

Recent years have seen an increase in the application of ideas from the social sciences to
computational systems. Nowhere has this been more pronounced than in the domain of …

Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities
of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions provide a computational analogue …

An idea that seems to be gaining considerable ground is that modeling the interactions of a
multi-agent system cannot be related exclusively to the actual agent and its communication …

Since multi-agent systems are inspired by human societies, they do not only borrow their
coordination mechanisms such as conventions and norms, but also need to consider the …

To adequately deal with the unpredictable and dynamic environments normative
frameworks are typically deployed in, mechanisms for modifying the norms at runtime are …

Electronic institutions (EIs) have been proposed as a means of regulating open agent
societies. EIs define the rules of the game in agent societies by fixing what agents are …

In this paper we extend the logic of violation proposed by [14] with time, more precisely, we
temporalise that logic. The resulting system allows us to capture many subtleties of the …

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

The notion of electronic institution draws inspiration from traditional institutions. Both can be
seen as “coordination artefacts that serve as an interface between the internal decision …