The Role of Norms and Electronic Institutions in Multi-Agent Systems
The Role of Norms and Electronic Institutions in Multi-Agent Systems

Author: Javier Vazquez-Salceda

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3034879555

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"It is not the consciousness of men that defines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness." Karl Marx In recent years, several researchers have argued that the design of multi-agent sys tems (MAS) in complex, open environments can benefit from social abstractions in order to cope with problems in coordination, cooperation and trust among agents, problems which are also present in human societies. The agent-mediated electronic institutions (e-institutions for short) is a new and promising field which focuses in the concepts of norms and institutions in order to pro vide normative frameworks to restrict or guide the behaviour of (software) agents. The main idea is that the interactions among a group of (software) agents are ruled by a set of explicit norms expressed in a computational language representation that agents can interpret. Such norms should not be considered as a negative constraining factor but as an aid that guides the agents' choices and reduces the complexity ofthe environment making the behaviour of other agents more predictable.

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems

Author: Olivier Boissier

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-05-26

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3540351760

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This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multiagent Systems, ANIREM 2005, and the International Workshop on Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005. This is the first volume in a new series on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. Topics include modeling, analyzing and programming organizations and more.

Agreement Technologies
Agreement Technologies

Author: Sascha Ossowski

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 655

ISBN-13: 940075583X

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More and more transactions, whether in business or related to leisure activities, are mediated automatically by computers and computer networks, and this trend is having a significant impact on the conception and design of new computer applications. The next generation of these applications will be based on software agents to which increasingly complex tasks can be delegated, and which interact with each other in sophisticated ways so as to forge agreements in the interest of their human users. The wide variety of technologies supporting this vision is the subject of this volume. It summarises the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action project on Agreement Technologies (AT), during which approximately 200 researchers from 25 European countries, along with eight institutions from non-COST countries, cooperated as part of a number of working groups. The book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of Agreement Technologies, written and coordinated by the leading researchers in the field. The results set out here are due for wide dissemination beyond the computer technology sector, involving law and social science as well.

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI

Author: Jörg Müller

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-05-15

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 3540340971

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This book represents the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, AOSE 2005. The 18 revised full papers were carefully selected from 35 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling tools, analysis and validation tools, multiagent systems design, implementation tools, and experiences and comparative evaluations.

Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

Author: Jürgen Dix

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-08-05

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 3642149766

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These are the proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Compu- tional Logicin Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA-XI), held during August 16–17,in Lisbon, collocated with the 19th European Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (ECAI-2010). Multi-agentsystemsarecommunitiesofproblem-solvingentitiesthatcanp- ceive and act upon their environment in order to achieve both their individual goals and their joint goals. The work on such systems integrates many techno- giesandconceptsfromarti?cialintelligenceandotherareasofcomputingaswell as other disciplines. Over recent years, the agent paradigm gained popularity, due to its applicability to a full spectrum of domains, such as search engines, recommendation systems, educational support, e-procurement, simulation and routing,electroniccommerceandtrade,etc.Computationallogicprovidesawe- de?ned, general, and rigorousframeworkfor studying the syntax, semantics and procedures for the various tasks in individual agents, as well as the interaction between, and integration among, agents in multi-agent systems. It also provides tools, techniques and standards for implementations and environments, for li- ing speci?cations to implementations, and for the veri?cation of properties of individual agents, multi-agent systems and their implementations. The purpose of the CLIMA workshops is to provide a forum for discussing techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about agents and multi-agent systems in a formal way. Former CLIMA editions have been conducted in conjunction with other - jor Computational Logic and AI events such as CL in 2000, ICLP in 2001 and 2007, FLoC in 2002, LPNMR and AI-Math in 2004, JELIA in 2004 and 2008 and MATES in 2009. In 2005 CLIMA was not associated with any major event.

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XV
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XV

Author: Nirav Ajmeri

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-11-23

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 3031208455

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2022, which was held in Auckland, New Zealand, on May 9, 2022. The 14 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They deal with autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, focusing on the scientific and technological aspects of social coordination, organizational theory, artificial (electronic) institutions, and normative and ethical MAS.

Agents and Data Mining Interaction
Agents and Data Mining Interaction

Author: Longbing Cao

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-08-27

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 3642154204

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Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2010, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2010. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents for data mining; data mining for agents; data mining in agents; and agent mining applications.

Progress in Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge Extraction, Multi-agent Systems, Logic Programming, and Constraint Solving
Progress in Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge Extraction, Multi-agent Systems, Logic Programming, and Constraint Solving

Author: Pavel Brazdil

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-12-05

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 354043030X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPTA 2001, held in Porto, Portugal, in December 2001. The 21 revised long papers and 18 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on extraction of knowledge from databases, AI techniques for financial time series analysis, multi-agent systems, AI logics and logic programming, constraint satisfaction, and AI planning.

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III

Author: Jaime Simão Sichman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-03-21

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 3540790039

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This book constitutes the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2007. The 23 papers in this volume were carefully selected from 38 initial submissions.