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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Transgression and Atonement
This paper presents an approach to modeling social transgressions in agent based systems. The approach is intended to be abstract enough that it may be used with many different th...
Kevin M. Knight, Deepthi Chandrasekaran, Aline Nor...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
An Automata-Based Monitoring Technique for Commitment-Based Multi-Agent Systems
In open multi-agent systems (MASs) we cannot assume agents to be developed in a centralized fashion. Recent proposals of commitmentbased communication frameworks aim at increasing ...
Paola Spoletini, Mario Verdicchio
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Towards a Formalisation of Electronic Contracting Environments
The IST-CONTRACT project is in the process of creating an electronic contracting language. One of the goals of this language is that it has formal underpinnings, and formalization...
Nir Oren, Sofia Panagiotidi, Javier Vázquez...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A Hybrid Reputation Model Based on the Use of Organizations
In this paper we present a hybrid reputation model focused on organizational structures that attempts to solve problems associated with both centralized and decentralized reputatio...
Viviane Torres da Silva, Ramón Hermoso, Rob...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
The Use of Norms Violations to Model Agents Behavioral Variety
In multi-agent applications, normative systems are usually used to regulate the behavior of the agents. They provide an efficient means to ensure limited deviations from an expecte...
Benoit Lacroix, Philippe Mathieu, Andras Kemeny
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Combining Job and Team Selection Heuristics
In open markets and within business and government organizations, selfish agents often face the question of what tasks to work on, and what partners to work with. Optimal solutions...
Chris L. D. Jones, K. Suzanne Barber
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Categorizing Social Norms in a Simulated Resource Gathering Society
Our main interest research is focused on reaching a decentralized form of social order through the usage of social norms in virtual communities. In this paper, we analyze the effe...
Daniel Villatoro, Jordi Sabater-Mir
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Verifying Social Expectations by Model Checking Truncated Paths
One approach to moderating the expected behaviour of agents in open societies is the use of explicit languages for defining norms, conditional commitments and/or social expectation...
Stephen Cranefield, Michael Winikoff
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Agreeing on Institutional Goals for Multi-agent Societies
Dorian Gaertner, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar,...