Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV: COIN 2008 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12, 2008 COIN@AAAI 2008, Chicago, USA, July 14, 2008,

ISBN-13: 9783642004421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 267 str.

Jomi Fred Hubner;Eric T Matson;Olivier Boissier

Opis

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are often understood as complex entities where a multitude of agents interact, usually with some intended individual or collective goals.Such a view usually assumessomeform of organization, or set of norms or conventions that articulate or restrain interactions in order to make them more e?ective, certain, or predictable for participants. Engineering e?ective coordi- tion or regulatory mechanisms is a key problem for the design of open complex multi-agent systems. In recent years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in MAS research especially in applications on service-oriented c- puting, grid computing and ambient intelligence. These applications enforce the need for using these aspects in order to ensure social order within these en- ronments. Openness, heterogeneity, and scalability of MAS pose new demands on traditional MAS interaction models. Therefore, the view of coordination and controlhasto be expanded to consider not onlyan agent-centricperspective but also societal and organization-centric views. However, agent autonomy is often needed for concretely implementing social order, because autonomousagents can intelligently adapt the designedorgani- tion to particular cases and can face unpredicted events. From this perspective autonomy can also be a possible source of internal change in the designed or- nizational constructs. Di?erently, autonomous behavior can also originate forms of self-organizationwhich emerge out of local interactions and are only partially externally programmed. In such situations the self-organized order and the - ternally designed organization can even be in con?ict.

Spis treści

From Coordination to Organization.- Agreeing on Institutional Goals for Multi-agent Societies.- Organizations and Autonomous Agents: Bottom-Up Dynamics of Coordination Mechanisms.- Combining Job and Team Selection Heuristics.- Force Versus Majority: A Comparison in Convention Emergence Efficiency.- From Organization to Coordination.- Automatic Generation of Distributed Team Formation Algorithms from Organizational Models.- Exploring Robustness in the Context of Organizational Self-design.- Instrumenting Multi-agent Organisations with Artifacts to Support Reputation Processes.- A Hybrid Reputation Model Based on the Use of Organizations.- Formalization of Norms and Institutions.- Formalising Situatedness and Adaptation in Electronic Institutions.- A Context-Based Institutional Normative Environment.- Towards a Formalisation of Electronic Contracting Environments.- Design of Norms and Institutions.- An Automata-Based Monitoring Technique for Commitment-Based Multi-Agent Systems.- Using SOA Provenance to Implement Norm Enforcement in e-Institutions.- Verifying Social Expectations by Model Checking Truncated Paths.- Applications.- The Use of Norms Violations to Model Agents Behavioral Variety.- Categorizing Social Norms in a Simulated Resource Gathering Society.- Transgression and Atonement.

Blurb

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2008, held as two events at AAMAS 2008, the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008 and at AAAI 2008, the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Chicago, IL, USA, in July 2008.

This volume is the 4th in a series focussing on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. The 17 papers contained in this volume are the revised and extended versions of a selection of papers presented and discussed in these two workshops. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: from coordination to organization, from organization to coordination, formalization of norms and institutions, design of norms and institutions, as well as applications.