Communicating open systems (extended abstract)

Authors:
Mark D'Inverno;Michael Luck;Pablo Noriega;Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar;Carles Sierra
Affiliations:
Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom;Department of Informatics, King's College London, United Kingdom;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish National Research Council, Spain;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish National Research Council, Spain;Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Venue:
IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions provide a computational analogue for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting software agents. In this paper, we argue that open multi-agent systems can be effectively designed and implemented as electronic institutions, for which we provide a comprehensive computational model. More specifically, the paper provides an operational semantics for electronic institutions, specifying the essential data structures, the state representation and the key operations necessary to implement them.