A review of norms and normative multiagent systems

MA Mahmoud, MS Ahmad… - The Scientific World …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Norms and normative multiagent systems have become the subjects of interest for many
researchers. Such interest is caused by the need for agents to exploit the norms in …

Open issues for normative multi-agent systems

N Criado, E Argente, V Botti - AI communications, 2011 - content.iospress.com
A challenging problem currently addressed in the multi-agent systems area is the
development of open systems; which are characterized by the heterogeneity of their …

Artificial institutions: a model of institutional reality for open multiagent systems

N Fornara, F Viganò, M Verdicchio… - Artificial intelligence and …, 2008 - Springer
Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different
groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, used …

Constraint rule-based programming of norms for electronic institutions

A Garcia-Camino, JA Rodriguez-Aguilar… - Autonomous agents and …, 2009 - Springer
Norms constitute a powerful coordination mechanism among heterogeneous agents. In this
paper, we propose a rule language to specify and explicitly manage the normative positions …

[PDF][PDF] Rule-based service composition and service-oriented business rule management

H Weigand, WJ van den Heuvel… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - researchgate.net
As business processes change constantly, there is a growing need for adaptive composite
services. Unfortunately, existing service composition languages and techniques result in …

Specifying and enforcing norms in artificial institutions

N Fornara, M Colombetti - International Workshop on Declarative Agent …, 2008 - Springer
In this paper we investigate two related aspects of the formalization of open interaction
systems: how to specify norms, and how to enforce them by means of sanctions. The …

Virtual enterprise normative framework within electronic institutions

HL Cardoso, E Oliveira - … Workshop on Engineering Societies in the …, 2004 - Springer
Virtual Enterprises are a major trend within the B2B scenario. Technological support towards
enabling this cooperation model includes the multi-agent systems paradigm. In this paper …

OMACS: A framework for adaptive, complex systems

SA DeLoach - Handbook of research on multi-agent systems …, 2009 - igi-global.com
This chapter introduces a suite of technologies for building complex, adaptive systems. It is
based in the multi-agent systems paradigm and uses the Organization Model for Adaptive …

A normative agent system to prevent cyberbullying

T Bosse, S Stam - … IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated approaches to prevent the negative effects of cyber bullying mainly focus on
affective agents that provide support for victims. The current paper takes a complementary …

[BOOK][B] Negotiation and argumentation in multi-agent systems: Fundamentals, theories, systems and applications

F Lopes, H Coelho - 2014 - books.google.com
Agent technology has generated lots of excitement in the past decade. Currently, multi-agent
systems (MAS) composed of autonomous agents representing individuals or organizations …