Mapping Abstractions of Norms in Electronic Institutions

  • Authors:
  • Ismail Khalil Ibrahim;Gabriele Kotsis;Wieland Schwinger

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WETICE '03 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Electronic institutions are the agents' counterpart ofhuman organizations, which are specifically designed forproviding support, trust, and legitimacy in electroniccommerce applications. Two approaches have beenadvocated for the design and modeling of multi agentsystems in an environment that is governed by some kindof (social) norms: in coordination strategy, multi agentsystems are defined as a set of entities regulated bymechanisms of social order and created by more or lessautonomous actors to achieve common goals; incooperation strategy, agents model specific roles in thesociety and interact with each other as means toaccomplish their goals. In this paper, we argue that thereis a relative similarity between the two approaches withrespect to their use of norms as constraints on the socialbehavior of multi agents systems.