Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II: Aamas 2006 and Ecai 2006 International Workshops, Coin 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Riva Del Garda, Italy, August 28, 2006, Revised Selected Pap

by Noriega, Pablo; Vazquez-Salceda, Javier; Boella, Guido; Boissier, Olivier; Dignum, Virginia

• ISBN13: 9783540744573
• ISBN10: 3540744576
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-09
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2006, held as two events at AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Hakodate, Japan, and ECAI 2006, the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Riva del Garda, Italy.

Table of Contents

Modelling and Analyzing Organizations
Structural Aspects of the Evaluation of Agent Organizations	p. 3
Integrating Trust in Virtual Organisations	p. 19
Coordinating Tasks in Agent Organizations	p. 32
Redesign of Organizations as a Basis for Organizational Change	p. 48
Modelling and Analyzing Institutions
Specifying and Reasoning About Multiple Institutions	p. 67
Controlling an Interactive Game with a Multi-agent Based Normative Organisational Model	p. 86
Ubi Lex, Ibi Poena: Designing Norm Enforcement in E-Institutions	p. 101
Specification and Verification of Institutions Through Status Functions	p. 115
Normative Models and Issues
Spatially Distributed Normative Objects	p. 133
Informing Regulatory Dynamics in Open MASs	p. 147
Operationalisation of Norms for Electronic Institutions	p. 163
Norm-Oriented Programming of Electronic Institutions: A Rule-Based Approach	p. 177
An Agent-Based Model for Hierarchical Organizations	p. 194
Ballroom etiquette: A Case Study for Norm-Governed Multi-Agent Systems	p. 212
Norm Evolution and Dynamics
Towards Self-configuration in Autonomic Electronic Institutions	p. 229
Norm Conflicts and Inconsistencies in Virtual Organisations	p. 245
Using Dynamic Electronic Institutions to Enable Digital Business Ecosystems	p. 259
A Peer-to-Peer Normative System to Achieve Social Order	p. 274
Autonomy, Coordination and Social Order
What Is Commitment? Physical, Organizational, and Social (Revised)	p. 293
Modelling and Monitoring Social Expectations in Multi-agent Systems	p. 308
Influence-Based Autonomy Levels in Agent Decision-Making	p. 322
Centralized Regulation of Social Exchanges Between Personality-Based Agents	p. 338
Cooperative Interactions: An Exchange Values Model	p. 356
Author Index	p. 373
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