Building computational institutions for agents with RoleX

  • Authors:
  • Giacomo Cabri;Luca Ferrari;Rossella Rubino

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy;CIRSFID, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

While the sociality of software agents drives toward the definition of institutions for multi agent systems, their autonomy requires that such institutions are ruled by appropriate norm mechanisms. Computational institutions represent useful abstractions. In this paper we show how computational institutions can be built on top of the RoleX infrastructure, a role-based system with interesting features for our aim. We achieve a twofold goal: on the one hand, we give concreteness to the institution abstractions; on the other hand, we demonstrate the flexibility of the RoleX infrastructure.