One source of trust for physical trading systems is their physical assets and simply their presence. A similar baseline does not exist for electronic trading systems, but one way i...
In the last 10 years several approaches and technologies other than MAS (such as Web services and Grid computing) have emerged, with the support of the industry, providing their o...
Abstract. A strong research emphasis is being given towards regulating interoperable multi-agent environments through norms and institutions. We are concerned with environments in ...
We show how protocols can be derived from norms using landmarks. The resulting protocols can be used by agents to fulfill the norms governing an e-institution without having to h...
Huib Aldewereld, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meye...
We propose a logic-based rendition of electronic institutions – these are means to specify open agent organisations. We employ a simple notation based on first-order logic and s...