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This paper focuses on the development of open Multiagent Systems. It is argued here that this kind of system can be designed and implemented as institutional environments, where heterogeneous agents can participate by playing roles, and interact by means of institutional acts. To have that set up an institutional model was designed and implemented in a framework where are employed technologies such as Coloured Petri Nets, for the Agent’s Role design and implementation, commitments among agents and agent’s reputation, for norm enforcement and social order management.
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de Oliveira, M., Golçalves, E., Purvis, M. (2014). Institutional Environments: A Framework for the Development of Open Multiagent Systems. In: Bazzan, A., Pichara, K. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence -- IBERAMIA 2014. IBERAMIA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8864. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12027-0_45
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