Communicating open systems

  • Mark D'Inverno
  • , Michael Luck
  • , Pablo Noriega
  • , Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar
  • , Carles Sierra

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Abstract

Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions provide a computational analogue for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting software agents. In this paper, we argue that open multi-agent systems can be effectively designed and implemented as electronic institutions, for which we provide a comprehensive computational model. More specifically, the paper provides an operational semantics for electronic institutions, specifying the essential data structures, the state representation and the key operations necessary to implement them.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013
PublisherInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
Pages3146-3150
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781577356332
Publication statusPublished - 3 Aug 2013
Event23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013 - Beijing, China
Duration: 3 Aug 20139 Aug 2013
https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2013 (Conference Proceedings)

Publication series

NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ISSN (Print)1045-0823

Conference

Conference23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period3/08/139/08/13
Internet address

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