“Sometimes” and “not never” revisited: on branching versus linear time temporal logic
Journal of the ACM (JACM) - The MIT Press scientific computation series
Graph-Based Algorithms for Boolean Function Manipulation
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Theoretical Computer Science
Introduction to many-sorted logic
Many-sorted logic and its applications
Model checking
Software reliability methods
Modal logic
ISLANDER: an electronic institutions editor
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Applying SAT Methods in Unbounded Symbolic Model Checking
CAV '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture: Practice and Promise
MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture: Practice and Promise
AMELI: An Agent-Based Middleware for Electronic Institutions
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Formalization of a voting protocol for virtual organizations
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A rule-based approach to norm-oriented programming of electronic institutions
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Agent communication and artificial institutions
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Spin model checker, the: primer and reference manual
Spin model checker, the: primer and reference manual
Specification and Verification of Institutions Through Status Functions
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Specifying and analysing agent-based social institutions using answer set programming
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
An event driven approach to norms in artificial institutions
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
Trace-Based Specification of Law and Guidance Policies for Multi-Agent Systems
Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII
Verifying Social Expectations by Model Checking Truncated Paths
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
Model checking norms and sanctions in institutions
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
Symbolic model checking commitment protocols using reduction
DALT'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Declarative agent languages and technologies VIII
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Norms defined by institutions and enforced by organizations have been put forward as a mechanism to increase the efficiency and reliability of electronic transactions carried out by agents in open systems. Despite several approaches have been proposed to model protocols in terms of institutional concepts (e.g., obligations and powers) and to monitor the actual compliance of agents' behavior at runtime, little work has been done to formally guarantee that such systems of norms ensure certain desirable properties. In this paper we describe a framework to verify institutions, which is characterized by a metamodel of institutional reality, languages to describe institutions and to specify their properties, and a tool to model check them. Finally, to evaluate our approach, we model and verify the Dutch Auction institution, a widely used interaction protocol, showing that the verification of institutional rules constitutes a necessary step to define sound institutions.