Distributed norm management in regulated multiagent systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 636-643

  Gaertner, Dorian ^a   Garcia Camino, Andres ^b   Noriega, Pablo ^b   Rodriguez Aguilar, J A ^b   Vasconcelos, Wamberto ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coordination; Electronic institutions; Normative conflicts; Organisations; Regulated multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION; ELECTRONIC INSTITUTIONS; NORMATIVE CONFLICTS; ORGANISATIONS; REGULATED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; GRAPH THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PETRI NETS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 60349102986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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