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Infrastructures to Engineer Open Agent Environments by Means of Electronic Institutions

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Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV

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Electronic institutions provide a computational analogue of human institutions to engineer open environments in which agents can interact in an autonomous way while complying with the norms of an institution. The purpose of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we lightly survey our research on coordination infrastructures for electronic institutions in the last ten years. On the other hand, we highlight the research challenges in environment engineering that we have tackled during this journey as well as promising research paths for future research on the engineering of open environments for multi-agent systems.

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This paper has been partially funded by the following projects: TIN2012-38876-C02-01, PRAISE (FP7-318770), CollectiveMind (TEC2013-49430-EXP), ACE (Autonomic software engineering for online Cultural Experiences), and the Generalitat of Catalunya (2014 SGR 118).

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    Dave de Jonge, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, Bruno Rosell i Gui & Carles Sierra

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de Jonge, D., Rodriguez-Aguilar, J.A., Rosell i Gui, B., Sierra, C. (2015). Infrastructures to Engineer Open Agent Environments by Means of Electronic Institutions. In: Weyns, D., Michel, F. (eds) Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9068. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23850-0_14

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