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The Role of Norms and Electronic Institutions in Multi-Agent Systems

The HarmonIA Framework

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Javier Vázquez-Salceda

    1. Intelligent Systems Group Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  • A survey on current approaches is presented
  • The different abstraction levels involved in a normative framework (values, norms, rules, procedures) are identified and connected
  • The influence of context for each abstraction level is identified
  • A real example in the medical domain is presented, applying the new approach

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Applying Electronic Institutions and Norms to Complex Domains

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Javier Vázquez-Salceda
      Pages 3-17

    3. CARREL: an Agent-Mediated System for Organ and Tissue Allocation

      • Javier Vázquez-Salceda
      Pages 19-57

    4. Norms, Agents and Electronic Institutions

      • Javier Vázquez-Salceda
      Pages 59-88

  3. HarmonIA: a New Approach to Model Electronic Institutions

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      Pages 89-89
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    2. A Multi-Layered Normative Framework for Agents

      • Javier Vázquez-Salceda
      Pages 91-114

    3. A Multi-Layered Framework for Organizations

      • Javier Vázquez-Salceda
      Pages 115-145

    4. Applying HarmonIA to the Organ and Tissue Allocation Problem

      • Javier Vázquez-Salceda
      Pages 147-206

    5. Conclusions

      • Javier Vázquez-Salceda
      Pages 207-221

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 223-274
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"It is not the consciousness of men that defines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness." Karl Marx In recent years, several researchers have argued that the design of multi-agent sys­ tems (MAS) in complex, open environments can benefit from social abstractions in order to cope with problems in coordination, cooperation and trust among agents, problems which are also present in human societies. The agent-mediated electronic institutions (e-institutions for short) is a new and promising field which focuses in the concepts of norms and institutions in order to pro­ vide normative frameworks to restrict or guide the behaviour of (software) agents. The main idea is that the interactions among a group of (software) agents are ruled by a set of explicit norms expressed in a computational language representation that agents can interpret. Such norms should not be considered as a negative constraining factor but as an aid that guides the agents' choices and reduces the complexity ofthe environment making the behaviour of other agents more predictable.

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  • Intelligent Systems Group Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Javier Vázquez-Salceda

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