Contextualizing normative open multi-agent systems

Open MASs can be extremely dynamic due to heterogeneous agents that migrate among them to obtain resources or services not found locally. In order to prevent malicious actions and to ensure agent trust, open MAS should be enhanced with normative mechanisms. However, it is not reasonable to expect that foreign agents know in advance all the norms of the MAS in which they will execute. Thus, this paper presents our DynaCROM approach for addressing these issues. From the individual agents' perspective, DynaCROM is an information mechanism so that agents become context norm-aware; from the system developers' perspective, DynaCROM is a methodology for norm management in regulated MASs. Notwithstanding the ultimate goal of a regulated MAS is to have an enforcement mechanism, we also present in the paper the integration of DynaCROM with SCAAR, its current solution for enforcing contextual norms. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.11 [Distributed Artificial Intelligence]: Multia...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Carolina Howard Felicíssimo, Caroline Chopinaud, Jean-Pierre Briot, Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Foreign Agents, Heterogeneous Agents, Open Mas, SAC 2008