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AAMAS 2005: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems pp 198–210Cite as

Organizations in Artificial Social Systems

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In this paper we introduce organizations and roles in Shoham and Tennenholtz’ artificial social systems, using a normative system. We model how real agents determine the behavior of organizations by playing roles in the organization, and how the organization controls the behavior of agents playing a role in it. We consider the design of an organization in terms of roles and the assignment of agents to roles, and the evolution of organizations. We do not present a complete formalization of the computational problems, but we illustrate our approach by examples.

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  • Utility Function
  • Multiagent System
  • Normative System
  • Police Agent
  • Game Theoretic Approach

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy

    Guido Boella

  2. University of Luxembourg,  

    Leendert van der Torre

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  1. SMA/G2I/ENSM.SE, 158 Cours Fauriel, 42023, Saint-Etienne, Cedex, France

    Olivier Boissier

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, BATH, UK

    Julian Padget

  3. Dept. Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Virginia Dignum

  4. Institute for Computer Science, Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Gabriela Lindemann

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Eric Matson

  6. Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies (CETINIA), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Calle Tulipán s/n, 28933, Móstoles (Madrid), Spain

    Sascha Ossowski

  7. Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes (LTI) Escola Politécnica (EP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP),  

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  8. Department of Software, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Javier Vázquez-Salceda

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Boella, G., van der Torre, L. (2006). Organizations in Artificial Social Systems. In: , et al. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems. AAMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3913. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11775331_14

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