A Commitment-Based Infrastructure for Programming Socio-Technical Systems

Baldoni, Matteo; Baroglio, Cristina; Capuzzimati, Federico

doi:10.1145/2677206

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“…A similar vision of groups is taken by the field of commitment-based norms Noriega et al 2013;Baldoni et al 2014;Chopra et al 2014]. In the formalisation of norms with commitments, the authors often use individuals and companies interchangeably, for instance, to express that an insurance company is committed to cover the expenses of the claim of a customer.…”

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Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations

Aldewereld

Dignum

Vasconcelos

2016

ACM Trans. Auton. Adapt. Syst.

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Normative multi-agent systems offer the ability to integrate social and individual factors to provide increased levels of fidelity with respect to modelling social phenomena, such as cooperation, coordination, group decision making, and organization, in both human and artificial agent systems. An important open research issue refers to group norms, that is, norms that govern groups of agents. Depending on the interpretation, group norms may be intended to affect the group as a whole, each member of a group, or some members of the group. Moreover, upholding group norms may require coordination among the members of the group. We have identified three sets of agents affected by group norms, namely, (i) the addressees of the norm, (ii) those that will act on it, and (iii) those that are responsible for ensuring norm compliance. We present a formalism to represent these, connecting it to a minimalist agent organisation model. We use our formalism to develop a reasoning mechanism that enables agents to identify their position with respect to a group norm to further support agent autonomy and coordination when deciding on possible courses of action.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations

Aldewereld

Dignum

Vasconcelos

2016

ACM Trans. Auton. Adapt. Syst.

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“…This proposal relies on the 2COMM middleware [2,3] for developing Multi-Agent Systems. In 2COMM, the MAS is specified as a set of social relationships, that govern the behavior of the agents taking part into the system.…”

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“…Let us, now, show an example of annotation added on top of an implementation of the Contract Net Protocol presented in [3]. We will focus on the role Initiator and on an agent willing to play that role.…”

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

Cossentino

Fallah-Seghrouchni²,

Winikoff

2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This work presents an agent typing system, that differently than most of other proposals relies on notions that are typical of agent systems instead of relying on a functional approach. Specifically, we use commitments to define types. The proposed typing includes a notion of compatibility, based on subtyping, which allows for the safe substitution of agents to roles along an interaction that is ruled by a commitmentbased protocol. Type checking can be done dynamically when an agent enacts a role. The proposal is implemented in the 2COMM framework and exploits Java annotations. 2COMM is based on the Agent & Artifact meta-model, exploit JADE and CArtAgO, by using CArtAgO artifacts in order to reify commitment protocols.

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“…Despite relying on the 2COMM infrastructure, which is used here to exemplify the feasibility of the approach, the discussion is abstract and aims at providing a general model that can be used by the systems' designers to program agent interaction. As distinct from previous work, like [8], the attention is placed on the characterization of the key components of the conceptual architecture and on how they can provide a guideline for the development of the individual agents. It is not focused on the programming aspects related to the development of an infrastructure, supporting the picture above (as the previous work was).…”

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Programming Agents by Their Social Relationships: A Commitment-Based Approach

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Multiagent systems can be seen as an approach to software engineering for the design and development of complex, distributed software. Generally speaking, multiagent systems provide two main abstractions for modularizing the software: the agents and the environment where agents operate. In this paper, we argue that also the social relationships among the agents should be expressed explicitly and become first-class objects both at design- and at development-time. In particular, we propose to represent social relationships as commitments that are reified as resources in the agents’ environment and can be directly manipulated by the agents via standard operations. We demonstrate that this view induces an agent programming schema that is substantially independent of the actual agent platform, provided that commitments are available as explained. The paper exemplifies the schema on two agent platforms, JADE and JaCaMo, where commitments are made available via the 2COMM library.

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A Commitment-Based Infrastructure for Programming Socio-Technical Systems

Cited by 18 publications

References 43 publications

Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations

Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

Programming Agents by Their Social Relationships: A Commitment-Based Approach

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