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The governing environment

Schumacher, Michael  
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Ossowski, Sascha
2006
Environments For Multi-Agent Systems Ii
2nd International Workshop on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems

Whenever a multiagent system is designed, many dependencies in the system are identified and must be solved in a correct way. Coordination deals with the management of such dependencies. For that, two complementary viewpoints can be distinguished: subjective coordination manages intra-agent aspects while objective coordination essentially deals with inter-agent aspects. On the basis of this separation of concerns, the paper discusses the need of infrastructures for objective coordination. As in usual agent software platforms, this can be done by offering implicit support for objective coordination, by establishing the conditions necessary for running agent programs and maintaining agent interactions. Other infrastructures such as Electronic Institutions go one step further and shape the governing aspects of objective coordination. However, this is usually done through dedicated middle-agents that belong to the institution. An alternative approach is to transfer the governing or regulating responsibility from institutional agents to the environment of a multiagent system. A promising way of doing this is to view the environment as a rule-based infrastructure that defines reactions to events. This has the advantage of allowing for the definition of laws that not only regulate agent interaction (as most work in governed interaction), but any action within the environment. We illustrate this approach by several examples in different domains of laws.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/11678809_6
Web of Science ID

WOS:000237040700006

Author(s)
Schumacher, Michael  
Ossowski, Sascha
Date Issued

2006

Published in
Environments For Multi-Agent Systems Ii
Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; 3658

Start page

88

End page

104

Subjects

communication

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coordination

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model

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EPFL

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LIA  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
2nd International Workshop on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems

Utrecht, NETHERLANDS

Jul 25, 2005

Available on Infoscience
December 13, 2006
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