Effectiveness in the process of creating virtual organizations (VO) is an important pre-
condition for having a truly dynamic VOs, in response to collaboration opportunities in fast …

Norms and institutions have been proposed to regulate multi-agent interactions. However,
agents are intrinsically autonomous, and may thus decide whether to comply with norms. On …

The regulation of the activity of multiple autonomous entities represented in a multi-agent
system, in environments with no central design (and thus with no cooperative assumption) …

The collaborative networks paradigm can empower enterprises with the needed agility and
survival capability to face market turbulence. However, the success and sustainability of …

The regulation of interactions in open multi-agent systems is an increasingly relevant
research topic. The field of normative multi-agent systems looks at such interactions as norm …

In a virtual organization, different business partners (individual organizations) cooperate in
order to achieve a common goal. The coordination of the corresponding inter-organizational …

A strong research emphasis is being given towards regulating interoperable multi-agent
environments through norms and institutions. We are concerned with environments in which …

The multi-agent system (MAS) paradigm has become a prominent approach in distributed
artificial intelligence. Many real-world applications of MAS require ensuring cooperative …

Nowadays, with the broadening usage of distributed systems and Grid, the need for
cooperation between many different heterogeneous organizations occurs. Such cooperation …

Most environments for multi-agent systems limit themselves to providing message transport
and white/yellow page services. While these are generic facilities, in some domains other …