An institution typically comprises constitutive rules, which give shape and meaning to social
interactions and regulative rules, which prescribe agent behaviour in the society. Regulative …

Institutions (also called normative frameworks) provide an effective mechanism to govern
agents in open intelligent systems. An institution specifies a set of norms, with respect to …

Open multiagent systems (MAS) typically require the participating agents to comply with
system-level rules, or norms, and may punish non-compliance. An interesting challenge for …

Institutions governing multi-agent systems (MASs) are a pervasive means to guide agents
towards the aims of the MAS (eg collecting data) with regulations on the outcomes of agents' …

A single global authority is not sufficient to regulate heterogenous agents in multiagent
systems based on distributed architectures, due to idiosyncratic local situations and to the …

The environment is an essential component of multi-agent systems and is often used to
coordinate the behaviour of individual agents. Recently many languages have been …

The behaviours of autonomous agents may deviate from those deemed to be for the good of
the societal systems of which they are a part. Norms have therefore been proposed as a …

Correctly specifying the behaviour of normative systems such as contracts and institutions is
a troublesome problem. Designers are faced with two concurrent, difficult tasks: firstly …

Norms explicitly represent prohibitions, permissions and obligations associated with
software agents, changing as agents act and interact in pursuit of their goals. Norms provide …

Normative capabilities in multi-agent systems (MAS) can be represented within agents,
separately as institutions, or a blend of the two. This paper addresses how to extend the …