Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems

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.

Inhalt

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 Protocols.- A Rule Language for Modelling and Monitoring Social Expectations in Multi-agent Systems.