Authentication in distributed systems: theory and practice
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A calculus for access control in distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Applications of distributed artificial intelligence in industry
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Organizational intelligence and distributed artificial intelligence
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
RBAC '97 Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Role-based access control
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Reasoning About Security: A Logic and a Decision Method for Role-Based Access Control
ECSQARU/FAPR '97 Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning
Fundamenta Informaticae - Deontic Logic in Computer Science
Supervised interaction: creating a web of trust for contracting agents in electronic environments
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Capturing agent autonomy in roles and XML
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Contracts as Legal Institutions in Organizations of Autonomous Agents
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Groups as Agents with Mental Attitudes
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Specifying and reasoning with institutional agents
ICAIL '03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
Attributing mental attitudes to roles: the agent metaphor applied to e-trade organizations
ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
Fundamenta Informaticae - Deontic Logic in Computer Science
Specifying the intertwining of cooperation and autonomy in agent-based systems
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Agent-based virtual organisations for the Grid
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Smart Grid Technologies & Market Models
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Design of a dynamic SLA negotiation protocol for grids
Proceedings of the first international conference on Networks for grid applications
Electronic institutions for B2B: dynamic normative environments
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Norm Conflicts and Inconsistencies in Virtual Organisations
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Managing Conflict Resolution in Norm-Regulated Environments
Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII
Specifying Intrusion Detection and Reaction Policies: An Application of Deontic Logic
DEON '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Deontic Logic in Computer Science
Modelling Social Attitudes of Agents
KES-AMSTA '07 Proceedings of the 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Specifying and Enforcing Norms in Artificial Institutions
Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VI
Normative conflict resolution in multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Normative framework for normative system change
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
MASQ: towards an integral approach to interaction
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Legal Theory, Sources of Law and the Semantic Web
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Legal Theory, Sources of Law and the Semantic Web
A model for collective strategy diffusion in agent social law evolution
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Concurrent collective strategy diffusion of multiagents: the spatial model and case study
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews - Special issue on information reuse and integration
Contract Formation through Preemptive Normative Conflict Resolution
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Contract Formation through Preemptive Normative Conflict Resolution
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A schema for specifying computational autonomy
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Supervised interaction: a form of contract management to create trust between agents
AAMAS'02 Proceedings of the 2002 international conference on Trust, reputation, and security: theories and practice
An algorithm for conflict resolution in regulated compound activities
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
Conflict resolution in norm-regulated environments via unification and constraints
DALT'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Declarative agent languages and technologies V
On exploiting agent technology in the design of peer-to-peer applications
AP2PC'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Organizations as socially constructed agents in the agent oriented paradigm
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Use and reuse of legal ontologies in knowledge engineering and information management
Law and the Semantic Web
Operational modelling of agent autonomy: theoretical aspects and a formal language
AOSE'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
A role model for description of agent behavior and coordination
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
A foundational ontology of organizations and roles
DALT'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
Normative specification: a tool for trust and security
FAST'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust
Verification and analysis of organisational change
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
Informed deliberation during norm-governed practical reasoning
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
From collective intentionality to intentional collectives: An ontological perspective
Cognitive Systems Research
Fundamenta Informaticae - Deontic Logic in Computer Science
Reasoning about coalitional agency and ability in the logics of "bringing-it-about"
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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In this article we propose a role based model for the specification of organized collective agency, based on the legal concept of artificial person and on the normative perspective of organizational systems. We focus on the analysis of groups of agents (humans or not) that want to act collectively in a (more or less) permanent basis, and in a stable and organized way, as it is the typical case of organizations. We argue that in those cases such groups of agents should give rise to a new agent, that we call of institutionalized agent, with its own identity, whose structure is essentially defined through the characterization of a set of roles and whose behavior is determined by the acts of the agents that play such roles. We also present a deontic and action modal logic that captures the concept of acting in a role and relates it with the deontic notions of obligation, permission and prohibition. This logic is used in the formal specification of institutionalized agents and of societies of agents and in the rigorous analysis of them. We pay particular attention to the interaction between agents through contracts or other normative relations. A high level specification language is also suggested.