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Communications of the ACM
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Modelling Agent Societies: Co-ordination Frameworks and Institutions
EPIA '01 Proceedings of the10th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence on Progress in Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Extraction, Multi-agent Systems, Logic Programming and Constraint Solving
Towards an Agent-based Infrastructure to Support Virtual Organisations
PRO-VE '02 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.5 Third Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises
Formalizing a Language for Institutions and Norms
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
On Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Using Similarity Measures for an Efficient Business Information-Exchange
IAT '05 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
A Formal Model for Situated Multi-Agent Systems
Fundamenta Informaticae - Multiagent Systems (FAMAS'03)
Ontology-based Services to help solving the heterogeneity problem in e-commerce negotiations
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Modeling agents and their environment
AOSE'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering III
Towards an institutional environment using norms for contract performance
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Environments for multiagent systems state-of-the-art and research challenges
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Virtual enterprise normative framework within electronic institutions
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
AOSE'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering VIII
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Most environments for multi-agent systems limit themselves to providing message transport and white/yellow page services. While these are generic facilities, in some domains other services are necessary, which may map real-world services provided by institutions. The Electronic Institution concept represents the virtual counterpart of real-world institutions, and one of its benefits is to provide a regulated and trustful environment by enforcing norms and providing specific institutional services. This paper presents some of such institutional services. Ontology-based services are provided to assist agent interaction, making the establishment of business agreements more efficient. After the establishment of an agreement through an appropriate negotiation process, it is necessary to verify the execution of the resulting contract. For this, we introduce an institutional normative environment based on the concept of institutional reality and norms.