Cooperating agents: a unified theory of communication and social structure
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Artificial Intelligence
On social laws for artificial agent societies: off-line design
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on computational research on interaction and agency, part 2
Controlling cooperative problem solving in industrial multi-agent systems using joint intentions
Artificial Intelligence
Integrating communicative action, conversations and decision theory to coordinate agents
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
Norms as Constraints on Real-Time Autonomous Agent Action
Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: Multi-Agent Rationality
Discourse obligations in dialogue processing
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
AAAI'90 Proceedings of the eighth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Agent architectures for flexible, practical teamwork
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Texture-based heuristics for scheduling revisited
AAAI'97/IAAI'97 Proceedings of the fourteenth national conference on artificial intelligence and ninth conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
A multi-attribute utility theoretic negotiation architecture for electronic commerce
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Providing Telecommunication Services through Multi-agent Negotiation
IATA '99 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Applications
MOISE: An Organizational Model for Multi-agent Systems
IBERAMIA-SBIA '00 Proceedings of the International Joint Conference, 7th Ibero-American Conference on AI: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Negotiating Service Provisioning
MAAMAW '99 Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: MultiAgent System Engineering
Evolving Real-Time Local Agent Control for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
Multi-attribute Utility Theoretic Negotiation for Electronic Commerce
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III, Current Issues in Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems (includes revised papers from AMEC 2000 Workshop)
A Fixed-point Characterization of a Deontic Logic of Regular Action
Fundamenta Informaticae - Deontic Logic in Computer Science
A Fixed-point Characterization of a Deontic Logic of Regular Action
Fundamenta Informaticae - Deontic Logic in Computer Science
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Societies constrain the behavior of agents by imposing multiple, often contradictory, obligations and interdictions amongst them. To work in harmony, agents must find ways to satisfy these constraints, or to break less important ones when necessary. In this paper, we present a solution to this problem based on a representation of obligations and interdictions in an organizational framework, together with an inference method that also decides which obligations to break in contradictory situations. These are integrated in an operational, practically useful agent development language that covers the spectrum from defining organizations, roles, agents, obligations, goals, conversations to inferring and executing coordinated agent behaviors in multi-agent applications. One strength of the approach is the way it supports negotiation by exchanging deontic constraints amongst agents. We illustrate this and the entire system with a negotiated solution to the feature interaction problem in the telecommunications industry.