An Interaction-Oriented Agent Framework for Open Environments

Baldoni, Matteo; Baroglio, Cristina; Bergenti, Federico; Marengo, Elisa; Mascardi, Viviana; Patti, Viviana; Ricci, Alessandro; Santi, Andrea

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23954-0_9

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“…Recent work in open systems has analysed the difference between i) constitutive rules that define activities and assign social meaning to actions, and ii) regulative rules that define when actions may be carried out. In particular, Baldoni et al (2011Baldoni et al ( , 2013 address the constitutive/regulative distinction by using two different languages, one for describing the constitutive model of activity, and a separate regulative policy to specify which actions are allowable in a given situation.…”

Section: Constitutive and Regulative Rules -Relating Institutions To The Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Softening electronic institutions to support natural interaction

Murray-Rust¹,

Papapanagiotou

Robertson³

2015

HCj

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A necessary feature of social networks is a model of interaction which is followed on the network---some structure which coordinates activity between the participants. These interaction models are typically implicit, making it a challenge to both design and communicate the protocols for interaction and coordination. Electronic institution systems are one of the principal ways in which multi-agent systems engineers address this issue of coordination in complex interactions between groups of agents. In electronic institutions, interaction models can be concisely specified as protocols which encode the norms which computational agents follow. However, the formality and the up-front costs of discovering and choosing to engage with these systems has limited their applicability to human interaction. The vast majority of human (and, increasingly, automated) social interaction is now taking place in social media systems where social norms are softer concepts regulated essentially by the people involved. Being able to leverage the power of electronic institutions in these systems would ease the application of computational intelligence in support of social tasks.We describe a method by which electronic institutions can act in synergy with these sorts of social media streams and, in doing so, we define a ``softer'' style of system that, nevertheless, retains connection to precise specifications of coordination. In addition, we question the tacit assumption that participating agents deliberately join appropriate institutions. Although our method is independent of choice of social media stream (given a few standard characteristics of these) we describe an implementation of the method using Twitter as a target media stream.We illustrate the utility of our approach with an example which benefits from computational coordination, but where the use of a traditional EI would have prohibitive up-front costs. As well as a trace of a synthetic version, we demonstrate the functioning of a complete implementation which can run the example, and discuss how minimal the end-user configuration to setup complex examples can be.

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Section: Constitutive and Regulative Rules -Relating Institutions To The Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Softening electronic institutions to support natural interaction

Murray-Rust¹,

Papapanagiotou

Robertson³

2015

HCj

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“…2COMM is a first step towards the implementation of the Mercurio architecture, proposed in [3], [4]. It realizes a programmable communication channel by means of artifacts, which is interaction-centric, exploits the social meaning of interaction supplied by commitment protocols, and enables the development of monitoring functionalities.…”

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“…One proposal for filling this gap is provided by the Mercurio framework [4], [3], where commitments and commitmentbased protocols, which are well-known for featuring a social and observational semantics [34], [35], [41], are introduced in JADE. Mercurio, however, is an abstract proposal.…”

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2COMM: A Commitment-Based MAS Architecture

Baldoni

Baroglio

Capuzzimati

2013

Engineering Multi-Agent Systems

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Abstract-Social expectations and social dependencies are a key characteristic of interaction, which should be explicitly accounted for by the agent platform, supporting the coordination of the involved autonomous peers. To this aim, it is necessary to provide a normative characterization of coordination and give a social meaning to the agents' actions. We focus on one of the best-known agent platforms, Jade, and show that it is possible to account for the social layer of interaction by exploiting commitment-based protocols, by modifying the Jade Methodology so as to include the new features in a seamless way, and by relying on the notion of artifact, along the direction outlined in the Mercurio proposal. This is a light revision of a paper presented a EMAS 2013.

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