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The Organisation Management Infrastructure (OMI) is an important component to support and monitor the execution of large-scale open multi-agent organisations whose functioning is described using high-level abstract modelling languages. Their interpretation by the OMI leads to heavy-weight programs, hindering flexibility and evolution. In this paper, we introduce a normative organisation programming language, called NOPL, based on a simple and elegant normative programming language. We show the suitability of these languages for programming the OMI of the \(\mathcal{M}\) oise framework; in particular, we show how \(\mathcal{M}\) oise’s Organisation Modelling Language can be translated into NOPL. We also briefly describe how this all has been implemented on top of ORA4MAS, the artifact-based OMI for \(\mathcal{M}\) oise.
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Hübner, J.F., Boissier, O., Bordini, R.H. (2010). A Normative Organisation Programming Language for Organisation Management Infrastructures. In: Padget, J., et al. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V. COIN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14962-7_8
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