Normative Multi-Agent Organizations

Multi-agent systems are viewed as consisting of individual agents whose behaviors are regulated by organization artifacts. This abstract presents a programming language, which is designed to implement norm-based organization artifacts, by means of an example and explains the execution behavior of the language interpreter. In order to achieve the overall objectives of multi-agent systems, the behavior of individual agents and their interactions should be regulated/coordinated. Existing approaches advocate the use of organizational models, normative systems, and electronic institutions to regulate the agents’ behaviors and interactions [3, 4, 6]. Norm-based artifacts regulate the behavior of individual agents in terms of norms being enforced by monitoring, regimenting and sanctioning mechanisms. Generally speaking, the social and normative perspective is conceived as a way to make the development and maintenance of multi-agent systems easier to manage, e.g., OperA [2], AMELI [3], and M...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ESAW
• Authors: Mehdi Dastani
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Behavior, ESAW 2009, Individual Agents, Organization Artifact