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A Distributed Model for Institutions in Open Multi-agent Systems

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2004)

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The management of interoperations among agents in an open multi agent system demands a robust organization mechanism to take care of the whole interaction process. The use of institutional norms to rule a multi agent society is one well founded approach to implement organized agent interactions. This paper will present a distributed model to organize agent interoperations using institutions, as the main management element, and commitments between agents as a way to model interactions among agents and promote organized multi agent societies.

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  1. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, P O Box 51, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Marcos De Oliveira, Martin Purvis, Stephen Cranefield & Mariusz Nowostawski

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  1. KES International, 2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, United Kingdom

    Mircea Gh. Negoita

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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De Oliveira, M., Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M. (2004). A Distributed Model for Institutions in Open Multi-agent Systems. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3214. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30133-2_156

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