Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems: AAMAS 2005 International Workshops on Agents, Norms, and Institutions for Regulated Multiagent Systems, ANIREM 2005 and on Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP / Edition 1

by Olivier Boissier, Julian Padget, Virginia Dignum, Gabriela Lindemann, Eric T Matson

Overview

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multiagent Systems, ANIREM 2005, and the International Workshop on Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005. This is the first volume in a new series on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. Topics include modeling, analyzing and programming organizations and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540351733
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	07/28/2006
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #3913
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	259
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Modelling, Analyzing and Programming Organizations.- A Coordination Framework Based on the Sociology of Organized Action.- Formal Modeling and Analysis of Organizations.- Towards Sustained Team Effectiveness.- Verification and Analysis of Organisational Change.- : A Middleware for Developing Organised Multi-agent Systems.- Modelling and Analyzing Institutions.- Fencing the Open Fields: Empirical Concerns on Electronic Institutions (Invited Paper).- Specifying and Analysing Agent-Based Social Institutions Using Answer Set Programming.- Modeling Control Mechanisms with Normative Multiagent Systems: The Case of the Renewables Obligation.- Computational Institutions for Modelling Norm-Regulated MAS: An Approach Based on Coordination Artifacts.- An Event Driven Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions.- Modelling Normative Designs.- Designing Normative Behaviour Via Landmarks.- Design by Contract Deontic Design Language for Multiagent Systems.- Informed Deliberation During Norm-Governed Practical Reasoning.- Organizations in Artificial Social Systems.- Evaluation and Regulation.- Exploring Congruence Between Organizational Structure and Task Performance: A Simulation Approach.- Verifying Norm Compliancy of Prools.- A Rule Language for Modelling and Monitoring Social Expectations in Multi-agent Systems.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"Contributions in this book show how further computer science can get much further in capturing and rigorously describing interaction dynamics within and between organizations. … the book poses many questions and provides interesting innovative answers that are of use for computer scientists, but also for economists, policy makers, philosophers, sociologists and cognitive scientists. The book preface writers claim that ‘the result is a well-balanced collection of high-quality papers that really can be called representative of the field at the moment’. I do agree with them." (Paolo Turrini, JASSS, February, 2007)

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