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Coupling the normative regulation with the constitutive state management in Situated Artificial Institutions

Part of: EUMAS '15 - '16

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2019

Maiquel De Brito Open the ORCID record for Maiquel De Brito [Opens in a new window] ,
Jomi Fred Hübner  and
Olivier Boissier
Maiquel De Brito*
Affiliation:
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Blumenau, SC, Brazil e-mail: maiquel.b@ufsc.br
Jomi Fred Hübner
Affiliation:
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil e-mail: jomi.hubner@ufsc.br
Olivier Boissier
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MINES Saint-Etienne, CNRS Lab, Hubert Curien UMR 5516, University of Lyon Saint-Etienne, France e-mail: Olivier.Boissier@emse.fr
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Abstract

Artificial Institutions are systems where the regulation defined through norms is based on an interpretation of the concrete world where the agents are situated and interact. Such interpretation can be defined through constitutive rules. The literature proposes independent approaches for the definition and management of both norms and constitutive rules. However, they are usually either not coupled or coupled in an ad hoc and limiting solution. This paper investigates how to make such a coupling. The main contribution of this paper is a formal model basing the regulation provided by the norms on the institutional interpretation of the world provided by constitutive rules. This contribution is based on the Situated Artificial Institutions model that proposes an integrated model of constitutive rules based on status functions.

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EUMAS 15-16
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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 34 , 2019 , e21
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© Cambridge University Press, 2019 

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