Communicating open systems

D'Inverno, M; Luck, M; Noriega, P; Rodriguez-Aguilar, JA; Sierra, C

Communicating open systems

D'Inverno, M Luck, M Noriega, P Rodriguez-Aguilar, JA Sierra, C

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Citation:: Artificial Intelligence, 2012, 186 pp. 38 - 94
Issue Date:: 2012-07-01

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dc.contributor.author	D'Inverno, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Luck, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Noriega, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rodriguez-Aguilar, JA	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Sierra, C https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0839-6233	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-07-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Artificial Intelligence, 2012, 186 pp. 38 - 94	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0004-3702	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/115173
dc.description.abstract	Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions provide a computational analogue for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting software agents. In this paper, we argue that open multi-agent systems can be effectively designed and implemented as electronic institutions, for which we provide a comprehensive computational model. More specifically, the paper provides an operational semantics for electronic institutions, specifying the essential data structures, the state representation and the key operations necessary to implement them. We specify the agent workflow structure that is the core component of such electronic institutions and particular instantiations of knowledge representation languages that support the institutional model. In so doing, we provide the first formal account of the electronic institution concept in a rigorous and unambiguous way. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Artificial Intelligence	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.artint.2012.03.004	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	en_US
dc.title	Communicating open systems	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	186	en_US
utslib.for	0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing	en_US
utslib.for	1702 Cognitive Sciences	en_US
utslib.for	0802 Computation Theory and Mathematics	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Software
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	186	en_US

Abstract:

Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions provide a computational analogue for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting software agents. In this paper, we argue that open multi-agent systems can be effectively designed and implemented as electronic institutions, for which we provide a comprehensive computational model. More specifically, the paper provides an operational semantics for electronic institutions, specifying the essential data structures, the state representation and the key operations necessary to implement them. We specify the agent workflow structure that is the core component of such electronic institutions and particular instantiations of knowledge representation languages that support the institutional model. In so doing, we provide the first formal account of the electronic institution concept in a rigorous and unambiguous way. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

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