The study of autonomous agents has a long history in the Multiagent System and the
Semantic Web communities, with applications ranging from automating business processes …

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 …

Despite all the research done in the last years on the development of methodologies for
designing MAS, there is no methodology suitable for the specification and design of MAS in …

In this paper, we propose a framework for modelling agent organizations, Omni, that allows
the balance of global organizational requirements with the autonomy of individual agents. It …

Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the
system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems …

Electronic markets, dispute resolution and negotiation protocols are three types of
application domains that can be viewed as open agent societies. Key characteristics of such …

One of the key issues in the computational representation of open societies relates to the
introduction of norms that help to cope with the heterogeneity, the autonomy and the …

While there has been much work on develo** frameworks and models of norms and
normative systems, consideration of the impact of norms on the practical reasoning of agents …

The concept of a social norm is used in multi-agent systems to specify behaviours required
of agents interacting in a given social context. We describe a method for specifying a class of …

Today's armed forces, which have a new perspective of combat, are trying to use high-end
technologies to improve their capabilities especially in combat and asymmetric warfare …