Within a virtual organization, more than one institution might be involved in the regulation of actors' behavior. Each institution specifies a set of norms covering a specific aspect of the …
Abstract Institutions regulate societies. Comprising Searle's constitutive counts-as rules,“A counts-as B in context C”, an institution ascribes from brute and institutional facts (As), a …
As distributed electronic systems grow to include thousands of components, from grid to peer-to-peer nodes, from (Semantic) Web services to web-apps to computation in the cloud …