Abstract
Artificial Institutions are often considered as systems where the regulation defined through norms is based on an interpretation of the concrete world where the agents are situated and interacting. Such interpretation can be defined through constitutive rules. Although the literature proposes independent approaches for the definition and management of both norms and constitutive rules, they are usually not connected to each other. This paper investigates how to make such a connection, that raises problems of representations and of coupling of independent dynamics (norms and constitutive rules). Our main contribution in this paper is an approach and a formal apparatus to base the regulation provided by the norms on the institutional interpretation of the world provided by constitutive rules as defined in the Situated Artificial Institutions model.
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In this paper, a substitution is always represented by \(\theta \). A substitution is a finite set of pairs \(\{\alpha _1/\beta _1,\cdots , \alpha _n/\beta _n\}\) where \(\alpha _i\) is a variable and \(\beta _i\) is a term. If \(\rho \) is a literal, then \(\rho \theta \) is the literal resulting from the replacement of each \(\alpha _i\) in \(\rho \) by the corresponding \(\beta _i\) [6].
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As events are supposed to be considered at the individual agent level in normative systems (i.e. they can be related to a triggering agent) [13], it is important to record the agent that causes an event-status function assignment.
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The authors thanks the financial support given by CAPES (PDSE 4926-14-5) and CNPq (grants 448462/2014-1 e 306301/2012-1).
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de Brito, M., Hübner, J.F., Boissier, O. (2016). Coupling Regulative and Constitutive Dimensions in Situated Artificial Institutions. In: Rovatsos, M., Vouros, G., Julian, V. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies. EUMAS AT 2015 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9571. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33509-4_25
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