Inst AL denotes both a declarative domain-specific language for the specification of
collections of interacting normative systems and a framework for a set of associated tools …

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 …

Norms guide multi-agent systems away from being potentially anarchic towards a
coordinated and collaborative society. Institutions provide an explicit, external …

Big societal challenges involve many interdependent parties at different levels of society that
are all interacting and reacting to each other. Although agent based simulations can help to …

This dissertation is motivated by the need, in today's globalist world, for a precise way to
enable governments, organisations and other regulatory bodies to evaluate the constraints …

ABSTRACT A key challenge of institutions is how to guide their governing into being
desirable. This is important from the perspective of an agent governed by an institution to …