Title :
Institutionalising open multi-agent systems
Author :
Esteva, Marc ; Rodríguez-Aguilar, Juan A. ; Arcos, Josep Li ; Sierra, Carles ; Garcia, Pere
Author_Institution :
Artificial Intelligence Res. Inst., CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
In this paper, we argue that open agent organisations can be effectively designed and implemented as institutionalised electronic organisations (electronic institutions) composed of a vast number of heterogeneous (human and software) agents playing different roles and interacting by means of illocutions. In this paper, we present the principal components that define an electronic institution
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; open systems; software agents; agent roles; electronic institutions; heterogeneous agents; human agents; illocutions; institutionalised electronic organisations; open agent organisations; open multi-agent systems; software agents; Artificial intelligence; Context; Councils; Design methodology; Electrical capacitance tomography; Humans; Layout; Multiagent systems; Protocols; Specification languages;
Conference_Titel :
MultiAgent Systems, 2000. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0625-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMAS.2000.858485
