Organizational notions such as roles, norms (eg, obligations and permissions), and services
are increasingly viewed as natural concepts to manage the complexity of software …

Norms constitute a powerful coordination mechanism among heterogeneous agents. In this
paper, we propose a rule language to specify and explicitly manage the normative positions …

Context: A normative multi-agent system (NMAS) is composed of agents that their behavior
is regulated by norms. The modeling of those elements (agents and norms) together at …

Open multi-agent systems composed of heterogeneous, autonomous and independently
designed agents are usually governed by a set of norms. The established norms regulate …

In multi-agent systems, norms provide a means for regulating agent behaviour at a system or
society level rather than by constraining agent behaviour directly. In order to cope effectively …

Norms in multi-agent systems are a mechanism used to restrict the behavior of agents by
defining what agents are obligated, permitted or prohibited to do and by stating stimulus to …

In this paper, which is exploratory in nature, we introduce how to use Dynamic Electronic
Institutions to enable Digital Business Ecosystems. A Digital Business Ecosystem is an …

We propose a distributed architecture to endow multi-agent systems with a social layer in
which normative positions are explicitly represented and managed via rules. Our rules …

Due to the heterogeneity of today's cloud providers, migrating applications between
providers is extremely challenging. This lack of portability is caused, in part, by vendor lock …

Norms constitute a powerful coordination mechanism among heterogeneous agents. We
propose means to specify and explicitly manage the normative positions of agents …