Controlling cooperative problem solving in industrial multi-agent systems using joint intentions
Artificial Intelligence
Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
Communications of the ACM
Using self-diagnosis to adapt organizational structures
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Open protocol design for complex interactions in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
The WSLA Framework: Specifying and Monitoring Service Level Agreements for Web Services
Journal of Network and Systems Management
LOTTO: group formation by overhearing in large teams
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
On the Monitoring of Contractual Service Level Agreements
WEC '04 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting
On Design and Implementation of a Contract Monitoring Facility
WEC '04 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting
A normative framework for agent-based systems
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
Case studies for contract-based systems
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Electronic contracting in aircraft aftercare: a case study
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Monitoring teams by overhearing: a multi-agent plan-recognition approach
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Contract Monitoring in Agent-Based Systems: Case Study
HoloMAS '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Contract Observation in Web Services Environments
SOCASE '09 Proceedings of the AAMAS 2009 International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering
Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL
AI Communications - European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS) 2009
An adherence support framework for service delivery in customer life cycle management
COIN@AAMAS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Applying electronic contracting to the aerospace aftercare domain
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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The behaviours of autonomous agents may deviate from those deemed to be for the good of the societal systems of which they are a part. Norms have therefore been proposed as a means to regulate agent behaviours in open and dynamic systems, and may be encoded in electronic contracts in order to specify the obliged, permitted and prohibited behaviours of agents that are signatories to such contracts. Enactment and management of electronic contracts thus enables the use of regulatory mechanisms to ensure that agent behaviours comply with the encoded norms. To facilitate such mechanisms requires monitoring in order to detect and explain violation of norms. In this paper we propose a framework for monitoring that is to be implemented and integrated into a suite of contract enactment and management tools. The framework adopts a non-intrusive approach to monitoring, whereby the states of a contract with respect to its contained norms can be inferred on the basis of messages exchanged. Specifically, the framework deploys agents that observe messages sent between contract signatories, where these messages correspond to agent behaviours and therefore indicate whether norms are, or are in danger of, being violated.