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Regulated Open Multi-Agent Systems Based on Contracts

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Regulated Open multi-agent systems are composed by heterogeneous and autonomous agents which may need to coexist in a complex social and legal frame work that can evolve to address the different and often conflicting objectives of the many stakeholders involved. Of the ways in which agent behaviour can be regulated in a multi-agent system, contracts seem to be the most appropriate for industrial environments. This paper analyzes the open challenges in the development of these kind of systems. It also proposes an architecture and a designing method which face up to these challenges by means of the integration of open multi-agent systems, service-oriented architectures, e-contracting and regulation enforcement mechanisms.

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This work is partially supported by the TIN2008-04446, TIN2009-13839C03-01, PROMETEO 2008/051 projects, CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 under the grant CSD200700022 and the FPU grant AP2007-01276 awarded to Emilia Garcia.

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    Emilia Garcia

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  1. Fac. Mathematics & Physics, Dept. Software Engineering, Charles University Praha, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha 1, 118 00, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Pokorny

  2. Dept. Information Technologies, Attn. Prof. Jiri Vorisek, Prague University of Economics, Nam. W. Churchilla 4, Praha, 130 67, Czech Republic

    Vaclav Repa

  3. Fac. Mathematics & Physics, Charles University, Praha, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha 1, 118 00, Czech Republic

    Karel Richta

  4. College of Business & Economics, Dept. Information Technology &, Boise State University, Univesity Dr. 1910, Boise, 83725-1615, Idaho, USA

    Wita Wojtkowski

  5. Fac. Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    Henry Linger

  6. Dept. Accountancy & Finance, National University of Ireland, University Road, Galway, Ireland

    Chris Barry

  7. Dept. Accountancy & Finance, National University of Ireland, University Road, Galway, Ireland

    Michael Lang

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Garcia, E., Giret, A., Botti, V. (2011). Regulated Open Multi-Agent Systems Based on Contracts. In: Pokorny, J., et al. Information Systems Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9790-6_20

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