Abstract. Research in the area of Multi-Agent System (MAS) organization has shown that the ability for a MAS to adapt its organizational structure can be beneficial when coping wi...
Mattijs Ghijsen, Wouter N. H. Jansweijer, Bob J. W...
Abstract. An agent normative society has to deal with two main concerns: how to define norms and how to enforce them. Enforcement becomes a complex issue as agent societies become...
Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Carles Sierra, W. Marc...
Abstract. We introduce Multimodal Logics of Normative Systems as a contribution to the development of a general logical framework for reasoning about normative systems over logics ...
Agents in an organization need to coordinate their actions in order to reach the organizational goals. This research describes the relation between types of coordination and the au...
Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Me...
The governance of open multi-agent systems is particular important since those systems are composed by heterogeneous, autonomous and independently designed agents. Such governance ...
This paper presents a multi-agent framework designed to simulate synthetic humans that properly balance task oriented and social behaviors. The work presented in this paper focuses...
Francisco Grimaldo, Miguel Lozano, Fernando Barber
We introduce in this paper an agent model based on coherence theory. We give a formalization of Thagard’s theory on coherence and use it to explain the reasoning process of an in...
Sindhu Joseph, Carles Sierra, W. Marco Schorlemmer
Conviviality is a mechanism to reinforce social cohesion and a tool to reduce mis-coordination between individuals, groups and institutions in web communities, for example in digit...
In this paper we enrich FIEVeL (a modelling language for institutions amenable to model checking) with new constructs to describe norms and sanctions. Moreover, we present a speci...
The Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (TAC SCM) was designed to explore approaches to dynamic supply chain trading. During the course of each year’s competition historical d...
James Andrews, Michael Benisch, Alberto Sardinha, ...