The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Interaction Protocols as Design Abstractions for Business Processes
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Specification-enhanced policies for automated management of changes in IT systems
LISA '06 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Large Installation System Administration
High variability design for software agents: Extending Tropos
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Enacting protocols by commitment concession
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Resolving conflict and inconsistency in norm-regulated virtual organizations
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Artificial institutions: a model of institutional reality for open multiagent systems
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Checking correctness of business contracts via commitments
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Formalising Situatedness and Adaptation in Electronic Institutions
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
Agents and Service-Oriented Computing for Autonomic Computing: A Research Agenda
IEEE Internet Computing
Amoeba: A methodology for modeling and evolving cross-organizational business processes
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Norm emergence in agent societies formed by dynamically changing networks
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Semantical considerations on dialectical and practical commitments
AAAI'08 Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
The fundamental principle of coactive design: interdependence must shape autonomy
COIN@AAMAS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Information-driven interaction-oriented programming: BSPL, the blindingly simple protocol language
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Using the Process of Norm Emergence to Model Consensus Formation
SASO '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
Specifying and Verifying Cross-Organizational Business Models: An Agent-Oriented Approach
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
Dynamic assignment of roles, rights and responsibilities in normative multi-agent systems
Journal of Logic and Computation
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We understand a sociotechnical system as a multistakeholder cyber-physical system. We introduce governance as the administration of such a system by the stakeholders themselves. In this regard, governance is a peer-to-peer notion and contrasts with traditional management, which is a top-down hierarchical notion. Traditionally, there is no computational support for governance and it is achieved through out-of-band interactions among system administrators. Not surprisingly, traditional approaches simply do not scale up to large sociotechnical systems. We develop an approach for governance based on a computational representation of norms in organizations. Our approach is motivated by the Ocean Observatory Initiative, a thirty-year $400 million project, which supports a variety of resources dealing with monitoring and studying the world's oceans. These resources include autonomous underwater vehicles, ocean gliders, buoys, and other instrumentation as well as more traditional computational resources. Our approach has the benefit of directly reflecting stakeholder needs and assuring stakeholders of the correctness of the resulting governance decisions while yielding adaptive resource allocation in the face of changes in both stakeholder needs and physical circumstances.