Protocol specifications and component adaptors
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Skeleton-based agent development for electronic institutions
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Larks: Dynamic Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Software Agents in Cyberspace
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Multi-agent Infrastructure, Agent Discovery, Middle Agents for Web Services and Interoperation
EASSS '01 Selected Tutorial Papers from the 9th ECCAI Advanced Course ACAI 2001 and Agent Link's 3rd European Agent Systems Summer School on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Formalizing a Language for Institutions and Norms
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Role-assignment in open agent societies
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Hermes: a methodology for goal oriented agent interactions
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Engineering open environments with electronic institutions
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
The role of roles in designing effective agent organizations
Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications
Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications
When are two web services compatible?
TES'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Technologies for E-Services
Design options for subscription managers
AOIS'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems III
Enriching a MAS environment with institutional services
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Verification of protocol conformance and agent interoperability
CLIMA'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Specifying Interaction Space Components in a FIPA-ACL Interaction Framework
Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
Model-Driven Integration of Organizational Models
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX
Designing Norms in Virtual Organizations
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Programming Organization-Aware Agents
ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Using THOMAS for Service Oriented Open MAS
SOCASE '09 Proceedings of the AAMAS 2009 International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering
Towards a logical model of social agreement for agent societies
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
An open architecture for service-oriented virtual organizations
ProMAS'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
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E-institutions are envisioned as facilities on the Internet for heterogeneoussoftware agents to perform their interactions and thus forming truly openagent systems. We investigate how these heterogeneous agents can determinewhether an institution is one in which they can participate. We propose a layeredapproach which is supported through a (traditional) middle agent that is part ofthe environment. Starting with a basic compatibility of message types, each extralayer ensures a higher degree of compatibility, but requires also extra sophisticationin both the information required and the matching algorithms. In this paper,we describe reasoning about how an agent should take on a specific role, messagematching, and protocol compatibility. We explore the issues in the context of anactual accommodation agent built in JACK, and a travel agency institution builtin ISLANDER.