Title :
Institutions and commitments in open multi-agent systems
Author :
De Oliveira, Marcos ; Purvis, Martin ; Cranefield, Stephen ; Nowostawski, Mariusz
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci., Otago Univ., Dunedin, New Zealand
Abstract :
The management of interactions among agents in an open multiagent system demands a robust organization mechanism to take care of the entire interaction process. The use of institutional norms to facilitate the guidance of a multiagent society is one well-founded approach to implement organized agent interactions. This work presents a distributed model to organize agent interoperations, using institutions as the main management element, and commitments between agents as a way to model interactions among agents and promote organized multiagent societies.
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; open systems; agent interoperation organization; distributed model; institutional norms; multiagent society; open multiagent systems; robust organization mechanism; Communication standards; Context; Information science; Intelligent agent; Multiagent systems; Protocols; Robustness; Space technology; Standards development; Stock markets;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004). Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2101-0
DOI :
10.1109/IAT.2004.1343005
