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Towards an Institutional Environment Using Norms for Contract Performance

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV (CEEMAS 2005)

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A strong research emphasis is being given towards regulating interoperable multi-agent environments through norms and institutions. We are concerned with environments in which agents form together virtual organizations leading to cooperation agreements that can be enforced. An electronic institution provides a coordination framework facilitating automatic contract establishment and providing an enforceable normative environment. We introduce the notion of contextualized norms within our institutional framework, and develop on a model of institutional reality, taking into account institutional roles and agents’ statements, with the aim of providing a contract monitoring service. Our proposal describes how to use norms to formalize cooperation agreements and operational contracts, and how to monitor and detect contract violations.

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  1. LIACC – NIAD&R, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Henrique Lopes Cardoso & Eugénio Oliveira

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  1. Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

    Michael Pěchouček

  2. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  3. Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kende u. 13-17., 1111, Budapest, Hungary

    László Zsolt Varga

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Cardoso, H.L., Oliveira, E. (2005). Towards an Institutional Environment Using Norms for Contract Performance. In: Pěchouček, M., Petta, P., Varga, L.Z. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV. CEEMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3690. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11559221_26

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