Norm verification and analysis of electronic institutions

  • Authors:
  • Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • DALT'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Electronic institutions are a formalism to define and analyse protocols among agents with a view to achieving global and individual goals. In this paper we propose a definition of norms for electronic institutions and investigate how these norms can be employed for verification and analysis. We offer automatic means to perform the extraction of sub-parts of an electronic institution in which norms hold true or can safely be avoided. These sub-parts can be used to synthesise norm-aware agents that will pursue or avoid commitments to norms.