Norm Consistency in Electronic Institutions

We elaborate on the verification of properties of electronic institutions, a formalism to define and analyse protocols among agents with a view to achieving global and individual goals. We formally define two kinds of norms, viz., the integrity norms and obligations, and provide a computational approach to assess whether an electronic institution is normatively consistent, that is, we can determine whether its norms prevent norm-compliant executions from happening. For this we strongly rely on the analysis of the dialogues that may occur as agents interact.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SBIA
• Authors: Marc Esteva, Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Carles Sierra, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Institution, Individual Goals, Integrity Norms, SBIA 2004