Towards an architecture for self-regulating agents: a case study in international trade

Authors:
Brigitte Burgemeestre;Joris Hulstijn;Yao-Hua Tan
Affiliations:
PGS IT Audit, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit;PGS IT Audit, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit;PGS IT Audit, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit and Department of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology
Venue:
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Year:
2009

Citing 7
Cited 2

Towards Modeling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering

RE '97 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Introduction to normative multiagent systems

Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
Norm-based behaviour modification in BDI agents

Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Agent Architectures for Compliance

ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Satisfying maintenance goals

DALT'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Declarative agent languages and technologies V
Modeling control objectives for business process compliance

BPM'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Business process management

Value-based argumentation for justifying compliance

DEON'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Deontic logic in computer science
Value-based argumentation for justifying compliance

Artificial Intelligence and Law - Special issue on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Norm-enforcement models applied in human societies may serve as an inspiration for the design of multi-agent systems. Models for norm-enforcement in multi-agent systems often focus either on the intra- or interagent level. We propose a combined approach to identify objectives for an architecture for self-regulating agents. In this paper we assess how changes on the inter-agent level affect the intra-agent level and how a generic BDI architecture IRMA can be adapted for self-regulation. The approach is validated with a case study of AEO certification, a European wide customs initiative to secure the supply chain while facilitating international trade.