System theory propagates the use of models which e level of abstraction to cope with complexity, evolving out of variety and connectivity. Different modeling techniques have been ...
Konrad Pfadenhauer, Burkhard Kittl, Schahram Dustd...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
The nature of much information available to decision makers is vague and imprecise, be it information for human managers in organisations or for process agents in a distributed co...
Mats Danielson, Love Ekenberg, Jim Johansson, Aron...
Interactions between agents in an open system such as the Internet require a significant degree of flexibility. A crucial aspect of the development of such methods is the notion o...
In this paper we investigate two related aspects of the formalization of open interaction systems: how to specify norms, and how to enforce them by means of sanctions. The problem...