designing protocols for agent institutions
Agent-mediated institutions (or e-institutions), introduced in [9], are open agent systems that allow heterogeneous agents to enter and perform tasks. The e-institutions specify the admissible behaviour of the agents by means of norms, which are declarative and abstract by nature. On the one hand this allows for a stable specification suitable for almost any conceivable situation that arises in the institution, but in the other hand the norms hardly give any indication which interaction patterns would guarantee satisfaction of the norms.
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