KQML as an agent communication language
Software agents
Skeleton-based agent development for electronic institutions
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Animated specifications of computational societies
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
An analysis of agent speech acts as institutional actions
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages
Issues in Agent Communication
Towards Layered Dialogical Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
AMELI: An Agent-Based Middleware for Electronic Institutions
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Normative Agent Reasoning in Dynamic Societies
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Implementing norms in electronic institutions
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Agent communication and artificial institutions
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Agent communication and institutional reality
AC'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Agent Communication
Meeting the deadline: why, when and how
FAABS'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems
Specifying and analysing agent-based social institutions using answer set programming
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
Modeling control mechanisms with normative multiagent systems: the case of the renewables obligation
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
An event driven approach to norms in artificial institutions
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
Specifying and enforcing norms in artificial institutions
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions
Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VI
Reasoning about agents and protocols via goals and commitments
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Declarative technologies for open agent systems and beyond
KES-AMSTA'10 Proceedings of the 4th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications, Part I
Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL
AI Communications - European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS) 2009
Norm refinement and design through inductive learning
COIN@AAMAS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
On the verification of social commitments and time
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
An interaction-oriented agent framework for open environments
AI*IA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Artificial intelligence around man and beyond
Ontology and time evolution of obligations and prohibitions using semantic web technology
DALT'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
Verifiable semantic model for agent interactions using social commitments
LADS'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Verifying conformance of multi-agent commitment-based protocols
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Communicative commitments: Model checking and complexity analysis
Knowledge-Based Systems
Using OWL 2 DL for expressing ACL content and semantics
EUMAS'11 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Multi-Agent Systems
Constitutive and regulative specifications of commitment protocols: A decoupled approach
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Special section on agent communication, trust in multiagent systems, intelligent tutoring and coaching systems
Semantic technologies for open interaction systems
Artificial Intelligence Review
Norms as a basis for governing sociotechnical systems
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Special Section on Intelligent Mobile Knowledge Discovery and Management Systems and Special Issue on Social Web Mining
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Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, used to describe the context of the interaction and the communication language the agents can use. Agents' interactions ought to allow for reliable expectations on the possible evolution of the system; however, in open systems interacting agents may not conform to predefined specifications. A possible solution is to define interaction environments including a normative component, with suitable rules to regulate the behaviour of agents. To tackle this problem we propose an application-independent metamodel of artificial institutions that can be used to define open multiagent systems. In our view an artificial institution is made up by an ontology that models the social context of the interaction, a set of authorizations to act on the institutional context, a set of linguistic conventions for the performance of institutional actions and a system of norms that are necessary to constrain the agents' actions.