Titlebook: Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII; 7th International Wo Gregory M. P. O’Hare,Alessandro Ricci,Oğuz Dikenel Conference proceedin

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A Norm-Governed Systems Perspective of Ad Hoc Networks investigating to what extent ad hoc networks can usefully be described in terms of permissions, obligations and other more complex normative relations, based on our previous work on modelling norm-governed multi-agent systems. We propose to employ our existing framework for the specification of the

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A Definition of Exceptions in Agent-Oriented Computingnt exception’ is however unclear across the literature, as it sometimes refers to extensions of traditional exception models in programming languages, and sometimes to organizational management mechanisms with distinct semantics. In this paper, we propose a definition of ‘agent exception’ to clarify

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Toward an Ontology of Regulation: Socially-Based Support for Coordination in Human and Machine Jointfforts of researchers seek ing to develop effective means to coordinate the performance of consequential work within mixed teams of humans, agents, and robots. Our analysis reveals challenges to the quality of human-machine mutual understanding; these in turn set upper bounds on the degree of sophis

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Formal Modelling of a Coordination System: From Practice to Theory, and Back AgainCoordination Service (WCS) based on JavaSpaces technology which had been successfully used in an industrial project, we built a formal model for the system in order to study its properties; specifically, our aim was to prove that Linda semantics was preserved in several layers of complex mappings fr

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Using Constraints and Process Algebra for Specification of First-Class Agent Interaction Protocolsagent programs in order to decide which path an interaction will take. This leads to several problems, three of which are particularly notable: hard-coding the decisions about interaction within an agent strongly couples the agent and the protocols it uses, which means a change to a protocol involve

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Adaptation of Autonomic Electronic Institutions Through Norms and Institutional Agents fixing what agents are permitted and forbidden to do and under what circumstances. And yet, there is the need for EIs to adapt their regulations to comply with their goals despite coping with varying populations of self-interested external agents. In this paper we focus on the extension of EIs with