The role of the environment in agreement technologies

  • Authors:

  • Estefanía Argente;Olivier Boissier;Carlos Carrascosa;Nicoletta Fornara;Peter Mcburney;Pablo Noriega;Alessandro Ricci;Jordi Sabater-Mir;Michael Ignaz Schumacher;Charalampos Tampitsikas;Kuldar Taveter;Giuseppe Vizzari;George Vouros

  • Affiliations:

  • Departamento Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain;LSTI/Institut Henri Fayol, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France;Departamento Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain;Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland;Department of Informatics, King's College London, London, UK;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona, Spain;DISI, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona, Spain;Institute of Business Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland;Institute of Business Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre, Switzerland;Department of Informatics, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia;Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence research center, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy;Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence Review
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The notion of Multi-Agent System environment is currently considered as a mediating entity, functioning as enabler but possibly also as a manager and constrainer of agent actions, perceptions, and interactions. In this paper, we analyze how the environment could be a first class abstraction to support the building, the development and the management of Agreements in decentralized and open systems between autonomous agents. To this aim we analyze the synergies between the environment and the foundational dimensions of agreement technologies such as semantics, norms, organizations, argumentation & negotiation, trust.