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The management of interoperations among agents in an open multi agent system demands a robust organization mechanism to take care of the whole interaction process. The use of institutional norms to rule a multi agent society is one well founded approach to implement organized agent interactions. This paper will present a distributed model to organize agent interoperations using institutions, as the main management element, and commitments between agents as a way to model interactions among agents and promote organized multi agent societies.
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De Oliveira, M., Purvis, M., Cranefield, S., Nowostawski, M. (2004). A Distributed Model for Institutions in Open Multi-agent Systems. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3214. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30133-2_156
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