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ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Exploring Congruence Between Organizational Structure and Task Performance: A Simulation Approach
Reorganization of the structure of an organization is a crucial issue in multi-agent systems that operate in an open, dynamic environment. Ideally, autonomous agents must be able t...
Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Liz Sonenberg
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Informed Deliberation During Norm-Governed Practical Reasoning
A norm-governed agent takes social norms into account in its practical reasoning. Such norms characterise its role within a specific organisational context. By adopting a role, th...
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Design by Contract Deontic Design Language for Multiagent Systems
Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...
Christophe Garion, Leendert van der Torre
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Specifying and Analysing Agent-Based Social Institutions Using Answer Set Programming
In this paper we discuss the use of the Answer Set Programming paradigm for representing and analysing specifications of agent-based institutions. We outline the features of insti...
Owen Cliffe, Marina De Vos, Julian A. Padget
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Fencing the Open Fields: Empirical Concerns on Electronic Institutions (Invited Paper)
The regulation of multiagent systems may be approached from different stand-points. In this paper I will take the perspective of using a certain type of devices, electronic instit...
Pablo Noriega
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Formal Modeling and Analysis of Organizations
A new, formal, role-based, framework for modeling and analyzing both real world and artificial organizations is introduced. It exploits static and dynamic properties of the organiz...
Egon L. van den Broek, Catholijn M. Jonker, Alexei...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Coordination Framework Based on the Sociology of Organized Action
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, Frédéric ...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Using tags to evolve trust and cooperation between groups
Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Designing multiparty interaction support in Elva, an embodied tour guide
Although social research into group interaction has flourished since the 20th century, the technology of embodied conversational agents for handling multiparty interaction is stil...
Jun Zheng, Xiang Yuan, Yam San Chee