SBIA '02 Proceedings of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Formalizing a Language for Institutions and Norms
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
Role-assignment in open agent societies
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework
Autonomous Agents and 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
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Modelling electronic organizations
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
Distributed norm management in regulated multiagent systems
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Programming Organization-Aware Agents
ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Toward a formal theory of belief, capability and promise incorporating temporal aspect
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Distributed norm management for multi-agent systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Models of coalition formation among cooperative agents: The current state and prospects of research
Scientific and Technical Information Processing
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One of the main challenges in multi-agent systems is the coordination of autonomous agents. In order to achieve this coordination, the agents are considered to be part of what we call a group (e.g., organization, institution, team, normative society, etc.). Our goal is to enable an agent to reason about the implications of being part of a group: what does it gain or lose, what are the constraints imposed on its behaviour. The theory of social power has been proposed as a paradigm to describe the agent's behaviour. In this paper we use this theory, we formalize it and we extend it to include group-related aspects. We then show how, using this theory, an agent is able to reason about the constraints imposed on its behaviour by the group, for example to decide whether it should enter or not a group.