Title | Communicating Open Systems: Extended Abstract |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | d'Inverno M, Luck M, Noriega P, Rodríguez-Aguilar JA, Sierra C |
Conference Name | IJCAI 2013 |
Publisher | AAAI Press |
Conference Location | Beijing, China |
Date Published | 03/08/2013 |
Keywords | Agent communication, electronic institutions, Formal languages, Open systems |
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. |
URL | http://ijcai.org/papers13/Papers/IJCAI13-475.pdf |