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

by Sichman, Jaime Simao; Padget, Julian; Ossowski, Sascha; Noriega, Pablo

• ISBN13: 9783540790020
• ISBN10: 3540790020
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2007, held as two events at AAMAS 2007, the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Honolulu, HI, USA, in May 2007 and MALLOW 2007, the Federated Workshops on Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations in Durham, UK, in September 2007. This volume is the third in a series focussing on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. The 23 papers in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at the two workshops that were carefully selected from 38 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on coordination, organization and institutions, and norms.

Table of Contents

Coordination
Towards a Framework for Agent Coordination and Reorganization, AgentCoRe	p. 1
Ignoring, Forcing and Expecting Simultaneous Events in Electronic Institutions	p. 15
A Contract Model for Electronic Institutions	p. 27
Embedding Landmarks and Scenes in a Computational Model of Institutions	p. 41
Coordination and Sociability for Intelligent Virtual Agents	p. 58
The Examination of an Information-Based Approach to Trust	p. 71
A Dynamic Coordination Mechanism Using Adjustable Autonomy	p. 83
Organizations and Institutions
Towards a Formalisation of Dynamic Electronic Institutions	p. 97
Large-Scale Organizational Computing Requires Unstratified Reflection and Strong Paraconsistency	p. 110
Using Case-Based Reasoning in Autonomic Electronic Institutions	p. 125
Semantical Concepts for a Formal Structural Dynamics of Situated Multiagent Systems	p. 139
Dynamic Composition of Electronic Institutions for Teamwork	p. 155
Organisational Artifacts and Agents for Open Multi-Agent Organisations: "Giving the Power Back to the Agents"	p. 171
Knowledge Sharing Between Agents in a Transitioning Organization	p. 187
Norms
Role Model Based Mechanism for Norm Emergence in Artificial Agent Societies	p. 203
Using Testimonies to Enforce the Behavior of Agents	p. 218
Implementing Norms That Govern Non-dialogical Actions	p. 232
A Normative Multi-Agent Systems Approach to the Use of Conviviality for Digital Cities	p. 245
On the Multimodal Logic of Normative Systems	p. 261
A Distributed Architecture for Norm Management in Multi-Agent Systems	p. 275
A Coherence Based Framework for Institutional Agents	p. 287
Distributed Norm Enforcement Via Ostracism	p. 301
Model Checking Norms and Sanctions in Institutions	p. 316
Author Index	p. 331
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