Multi-agents systems are composed of autonomous and possibly heterogeneous software
agents that act according to their own interests. Some coordination mechanism must be …

Normative multi-agent systems offer the ability to integrate social and individual factors to
provide increased levels of fidelity with respect to modelling social phenomena, such as …

Everyday uses of the notion of institution and some typical institutions have been studied
and formalized by economists and philosophers. Borrowing from these everyday …

The increasing development of autonomous intelligent systems, such as smart vehicles,
smart homes, and social robots, poses new challenges to face. Among them, ensuring that …

Understanding accountability in contract violations, eg, whom is accountable for what, is a
tedious, time-consuming, and costly task for human decision-making, especially when …

Norms are within minds and out of minds; they work thanks to their mental implementation
but also thanks to their externalized supports, processing, diffusion, and behavioral …

Norms allow system designers to specify the desired behaviour of a sociotechnical system.
In this way, norms regulate what the social and technical agents in a sociotechnical system …

Recent research indicates that during the design of teleinformatic system the tradeoff
between the systems performance and the system protection should be made. The …

We address the problem of associating access policies with datasets and how to monitor
compliance via policy-carrying data. Our contributions are a formal model in first-order logic …

The emerging research and application domains of the Internet-of-Things and Big Data,
together with socio-technical phenomena such as social networking, as well as mobile …