@inproceedings{40b78c946cc74e30a09bf80cfa78d055,
title = "Modelling agent societies: Co-ordination frameworks and institutions",
abstract = "Organisations can be defined as a set of entities regulated by mechanisms of social order and created by more or less autonomous actors to achieve common goals. Multi-agent systems are a natural choice to design organisational systems due to the proactive and autonomous behaviour of agents. However, in business environments it is necessary to consider the behaviour of the global system and the collective aspects of the domain. In this paper, we argue that multi-agent systems should be designed around organisational co-ordination frameworks that reflect the co-ordination structures of the particular organisation. As in human societies, we argue that norms and institutions are a way for agent societies to cope with the challenge of social order. Through institutions, conventions and interaction patterns for the co-ordination of agents can be specified, monitored and managed. {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.",
author = "Virginia Dignum and Frank Dignum",
year = "2001",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-45329-6_21",
language = "English",
isbn = "354043030X",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "191--204",
editor = "P. Brazdil and A. Jorge",
booktitle = "Progress in Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Extraction, Multi-Agent Systems, Logic Programming, and Constraint Solving - 10th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2001, Proc.",
note = "10th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2001 ; Conference date: 17-12-2001 Through 20-12-2001",
}