Role-Based Access Control Models
Computer
Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
On the representation of roles in object-oriented and conceptual modelling
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
ROADMAP: extending the gaia methodology for complex open systems
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Animated specifications of computational societies
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Generic Role Model for Dynamic Objects
CAiSE '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
On Commitments, Roles, and Obligations
CEEMAS '01 Revised Papers from the Second International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems: From Theory to Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
Formalizing a Language for Institutions and Norms
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
On Social Commitment, Roles and Preferred Goals
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Foundations of organizational structures in multiagent systems
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Enacting and deacting roles in agent programming
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Organizations as socially constructed agents in the agent oriented paradigm
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Delegation of power in normative multiagent systems
DEON'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems
A foundational ontology of organizations and roles
DALT'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
A game theoretic approach to contracts in multiagent systems
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Security policies for sharing knowledge in virtual communities
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Norms and plans as unification criteria for social collectives
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective
Applied Ontology - Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective
Merging Roles in Coordination and in Agent Deliberation
Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
Specifying Open Agent Systems: A Survey
Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX
Five Guidelines for Normative Multiagent Systems
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2009: The Twenty-Second Annual Conference
Generic Problem Solving Tasks and Agent Roles in Public Administration
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2010: The Twenty-Third Annual Conference
Multi-agent role allocation: issues, approaches, and multiple perspectives
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Group intention is social choice with commitment
COIN@AAMAS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
An agent-based legal knowledge acquisition methodology for agile public administration
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
Rules, agents and norms: guidelines for rule-based normative multi-agent systems
RuleML'2011 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Rule-based reasoning, programming, and applications
Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective
Applied Ontology - Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective
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In this paper we address the problem of defining social roles in multi-agent systems. Social roles provide the basic structure of social institutions and organizations. We start from the properties attributed to roles both in the multi-agent systems and the Object Oriented community, and we use them in an ontological analysis of the notion of social role. We identify three main properties of social roles. First, they are definitionally dependent on the institution they belong to, i.e. the definition of a role is given inside the definition of the institution. Second, they attribute powers to the agents playing them, like creating commitments for the institutions and the other roles. Third, they allow roles to play roles, in the same way as agents do. Using Input/Output logics, we propose a formalization of roles in multi-agent systems satisfying the three properties we identified.