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Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
A Service-Oriented Negotiation Model between Autonomous Agents
Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: Multi-Agent Rationality
Towards Layered Dialogical Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
A Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Organizations and Collective Obligations
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Using Similarity Criteria to Make Negotiation Trade-Offs
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Towards a test‐bed for trading agents in electronic auction markets
AI Communications
Electronic Institutions: Future Trends and Challenges
CIA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents VI
On agent technology for e-commerce: trust, security and legal issues
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Specifying and monitoring economic environments using rights and obligations
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Argumentation-Supported information distribution in a multiagent system for knowledge management
ArgMAS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Specification and verification of agent interaction using abductive reasoning
CLIMA'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
ONTOarg: A decision support framework for ontology integration based on argumentation
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Most approaches to modelling agent interactions tend to focus just on the mechanism: the protocol and language usedfor the interaction, andforget the context where that interaction takes place. We holdthat although the complexity of the problem to be solvedis associatedto the complexity of the mechanism, modelling the mechanism alone is insufficient. We argue that an appropriate representation of the context and pragmatics associatedto the interaction, as well as a practical way of enforcing the acceptedin teraction conventions are essential for the design of successful MAS applications. The concept of Electronic Institution is presentedb oth as a way to reconcile mechanisms with their corresponding pragmatic and contextual aspects, and away of extending familiar notions of mediation to MAS.