Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Organizations and Normative Agents
EurAsia-ICT '02 Proceedings of the First EurAsian Conference on Information and Communication Technology
Motivational Attitudes of Agents: On Desires, Obligations, and Norms
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
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
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
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
BDIO: obligations and the specification of agent behavior
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
From social agents to multi-agent systems: preliminary report
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
Interrelations between the BDI primitives: Towards heterogeneous agents
Cognitive Systems Research
ANGLE: An autonomous, normative and guidable agent with changing knowledge
Information Sciences: an International Journal
An extended BDI agent with policies and contracts
PRIMA'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
PDC-Agent enabled autonomic computing: a theory of autonomous service composition
PRIMA'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
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Due to the dynamic nature of virtual organizations (VOs), it is necessary that the multi-agent system for VO formation and cooperation should be aware of the mutable business requirements or user's preferences within VO environments and integrate these dynamic business requirements into its decision making process. We present a model of multi-agent system based on policies and contracts, in which the requirements for both the system and the individual agents can be defined dynamically by means of policies. On the one hand, at the system level, the duties and rights of roles can be specified or modified in terms of policies presented by the VO administrators. And on the other hand, role enacting agents are guided by policies defined by their owners. The policy and contract extended agent model (BGIPDC) is the core of the system, which is formally specified in this paper.