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
Local vs Global Policies and Centralized vs Decentralized Control in Virtual Communities of Agents
WI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
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Dynamics of Rule Revision and Strategy Revision in Legislative Games
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Permission and authorization in policies for virtual communities of agents
AP2PC'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
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In this paper we study the rational balance between local and global policies in web based distributed systems. We use a logical framework for multiagent systems to model obligations and permissions composing policies. In particular, a qualitative decision theory allows agents to trade off the decision of respecting a norm against the consequences of not respecting it: the possibility that they are considered violators and thus sanctioned. Global policies refer not to the existence of a local norm but to the fact that it is enforced by the local authority by recognizing and sanctioning violations.