On agent-based software engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Law-governed interaction: a coordination and control mechanism for heterogeneous distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
AMELI: An Agent-Based Middleware for Electronic Institutions
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Implementing norms in electronic institutions
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis
Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis
Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Structural Aspects of the Evaluation of Agent Organizations
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
The MACODO middleware for context-driven dynamic agent organizations
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Instrumenting multi-agent organisations with organisational artifacts and agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The MACODO organization model for context-driven dynamic agent organizations
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
AGRE: integrating environments with organizations
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Formal modeling and analysis of organizations
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
Architecture-centric support for adaptive service collaborations
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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To support the complex coordination activities involved in supply chain management, more and more companies have autonomous software agents acting on their behalf. Due to confidentiality concerns, such as hiding sensitive information from competitors, agents typically only have a local view on the supply chain. In many situations, however, companies would like to expand the view of their agents to share valuable information such as transportation tracking and service delays. Non of the participating companies, however, has enough knowledge or authority to realize such interactions in a controlled manner. In this paper, we present an organization middleware that offers a collaboration platform and enables agents to interact across the boundary of local interactions. Policies and laws enable companies to define the scope of interactions of their agents and the restrictions on their exposed information. Using Alloy, we formally define the relation between the interactions offered by the middleware, the exposed information and the provided policies and laws. This allows us to guarantee a number properties which are of particular interest to companies using the middleware.