Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems
Papers from the 2008 AAAI Workshop
Virginia Dignum, Eric Matson, Program Cochairs
Technical Report WS-08-03 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Organizing Committee / vii
Virginia Dignum, Eric Matson
How to Concretize Norms in NMAS? An Operational Normative Approach Presented with a Case Study from the Television Domain / 1
Carolina Felicíssimo, Jean-Pierre Briot, Caroline Chopinaud, Carlos Lucena, José Viterbo
¿Por Favor? Favor Reciprocation When Agents Have Private Discounting / 9
Christopher J. Hazard
Instrumenting Multi-Agent Organisations with Reputation Artifacts / 17
Jomi Fred Hübner, Laurent Vercouter, Olivier Boissier
Multi-Organizational Structures / 25
Hengameh Irandoust, Abder Rezak Benaskeur
Exploring Robustness in the Context of Organizational Self-Design / 33
Sachin Kamboj, Keith S. Decker
Transgression and Atonement / 40
Kevin M. Knight, Deepthi Chandrasekaran, Aline Normoyle, Ransom Weaver, Barry G. Silverman
Norm Emergence in Complex Ambiguous Situations / 48
Kiran Lakkaraju, Les Gasser
Distributed Coordination and Network Structure: Experimental Results from Simulation / 56
Jamie Olson, Kathleen Carley
Towards a Formalisation of Electronic Contracting Environments / 61
Nir Oren, Sofia Panagiotidi, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Sanjay Modgil, Michael Luck, Simon Miles
Force versus Majority: A Comparison in Convention Emergence Efficiency / 69
Paulo Urbano, João Balsa, Luis Antunes, Luis Moniz
Using SOA Provenance to Implement Norm Enforcement in e-Institutions / 77
Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao
Categorizing Social Norms in a Simulated Resource Gathering Society (Work in Progress) / 85
Daniel Villatoro, Jordi Sabater-Mir