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Agreement Technologies: A Computing Perspective

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In this chapter we analyse the concept of agreement from a Computing perspective. In particular, we argue that the capability of software components to dynamically forge and execute agreements at run-time will become increasingly important, and identify key areas and challenges that need to be addressed in order to advance in this direction. Finally, we introduce the emerging field of Agreement Technologies for the construction of large-scale open distributed software systems, and identify technologies that are in the sandbox to define, specify and verify such systems.

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Acknowledgements

The term “Agreement Technologies” was introduced by Michael Wooldridge in conversations at the AAMAS conference in 2004. It was also used by Nicholas R.Jennings as title for a keynote talk given in 2005. Carles Sierra was among the first to give shape to the field by defining five key areas as technological building blocks for AT in 2007.

This work was partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the project “Agreement Technologies” (CONSOLIDER CSD2007-0022, INGENIO 2010). The authors would like to thank Matteo Vasirani for inspiring discussions on the challenges of extending Agreement Technologies to mixed societies of human and software agents.

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  2. IIIA – CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

    Carles Sierra

  3. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Botti

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Ossowski, S., Sierra, C., Botti, V. (2013). Agreement Technologies: A Computing Perspective. In: Ossowski, S. (eds) Agreement Technologies. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_1

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