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This paper presents a programming language that is designed to implement multi-agent organisations. These organisations are developed as separate entities regulating the behaviour of individual agents that interact with the organisation. The focus is on the normative aspect of organisations that are specified in terms of norms being enforced by monitoring, regimenting and sanctioning mechanisms.
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Tinnemeier, N.A.M., Dastani, M., Meyer, JJ.C. (2009). Orwell’s Nightmare for Agents? Programming Multi-agent Organisations. In: Hindriks, K.V., Pokahr, A., Sardina, S. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5442. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03278-3_4
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