Reference : Commitments and interaction norms in organisations
Scientific journals : Article
Engineering, computing & technology : Computer science
Computational Sciences
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/30684
Commitments and interaction norms in organisations
English
Dastani, Mehdi mailto [Universiteit Utrecht > Information and Computing Sciences > Intelligent Systems Group]
van der Torre, Leon mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
Yorke-Smith, Neil mailto [American University of Beirut, Lebanon > Suliman S. Olayan School of Business > Business Information and Decision Systems]
Mar-2017
Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
31
2
207-249
Yes (verified by ORBilu)
International
1387-2532
1573-7454
[en] Commitments ; Normative organisations ; Operational semantics
[en] In an organisational setting such as an online marketplace, an entity called the ‘organisation’ or ‘institution’ defines interaction protocols, monitors agent interaction, and intervenes to enforce the interaction protocols. The organisation might be a software system that thus regulates the marketplace, for example. In this article we abstract over application-specific protocols and consider commitment lifecycles as generic interaction protocols. We model interaction protocols by explicitly-represented norms, such that we can operationalise the enforcement of protocols by means of norm enforcement, and we can analyse the protocols by a logical analysis of the norms. We adopt insights and methods from commitment-based approaches to agent interaction as well as from norm-based approaches to agent behaviour governance. First, we show how to use explicitly-represented norms to model commitment dynamics (lifecycles). Second, we introduce an operational semantics to operationalise norm enforcement. Third, we show how to logically analyse interaction protocols by means of commitment dynamics and norm enforcement. The model, semantics, and analysis are illustrated by a running example from a vehicle insurance domain.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/30684

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