Using a Normative Organisational Model to Specify and Manage an Institution for Multi-agent Systems

Nowadays multi-agent applications are more and more openness. That brings the risk to deal with to autonomous agents i.e. agents not respecting the society rules. To insure a coherent behaviour the application require tools to control and regulate the system overall functioning. Moreover they should provide the system with mechanisms to enforce global laws on the autonomous agents operating in it. This paper presents an institution multi-agent layer called SYNAI. Implemented with different agents, the institution functioning is itself specified as a normative organisation model making explicit how the overall system should be controlled. Using an iTV game application, we illustrate how such a specification is useful to help the agents to function in the system.

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