Building computational institutions for agents with RoleX

While the sociality of software agents drives toward the definition of institutions for multi agent systems, their autonomy requires that such institutions be ruled by appropriate norm mechanisms. Computational ions represent useful abstractions. In this paper we show how computational institutions can be built on top of the RoleX infrastructure, a role-based system with interesting features for our aim. We achieve a twofold goal: on the one hand, we give concreteness to the institution ions; on the other hand we demonstrate the flexibility of the RoleX infrastructure. Keyword:

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: AIL
• Authors: Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari, Rossella Rubino
• Keywords: AIL 2008, Appropriate Norm Mechanisms, Multi Agent Systems, RoleX Infrastructure