Desiderata for agent argumentation protocols
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Towards an organizational model for agent societies using contracts
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Fundamenta Informaticae
SBIA '02 Proceedings of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
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
Commitments Among Autonomous Agents in Information-Rich Environments
Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: Multi-Agent Rationality
Role-assignment in open agent societies
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Attributing mental attitudes to normative systems
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Commitment-based and dialogue-game-based protocols: new trends in agent communication languages
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Contracts as Legal Institutions in Organizations of Autonomous Agents
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
From Obligations to Organizational Structures in Multi-Agent Systems
PRIMA '08 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents: Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Some basic concepts for shared autonomy: a first report
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Collaborative Decision Making: Perspectives and Challenges
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Exception handling in pervasive service composition using normative agents
Journal of Web Engineering
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One of the main challenges faced by the multi-agent community is to ensure the coordination of autonomous agents in open heterogeneous multi-agent systems. In order to coordinate their behaviour, the agents should be able to interact with each other. Social commitments have been used in recent years as an answer to the challenges of enabling heterogeneous agents to communicate and interact successfully. However, coordinating agents only by means of interaction models is difficult in open multi-agent systems, where possibly malevolent agents can enter at any time and violate the interaction rules. Agent organizations, institutions and normative systems have been used to control the way agents interact and behave. In this paper we try to bring together the two models of coordinating agents: commitment-based interaction and organizations. To this aim we describe how one can use social commitments to represent the expected behaviour of an agent playing a role in an organization. We thus make a first step towards a unified model of coordination in multi-agent systems: a definition of the expected behaviour of an agent using social commitments in both organizational and non-organizational contexts.