This paper surveys the literature over the last decades in the field of self-organizing
multiagent systems. Self-organization has been extensively studied and applied in …

The success of human civilization is rooted in our ability to cooperate by communicating and
making joint plans. We study how artificial agents may use communication to better …

Norms and normative multiagent systems have become the subjects of interest for many
researchers. Such interest is caused by the need for agents to exploit the norms in …

We present the notion of Social Instruments as mechanisms that facilitate the emergence of
conventions from repeated interactions between members of a society. Specifically, we …

Understanding how to design agents that sustain cooperation in multi-agent systems has
been a long-lasting goal in distributed artificial intelligence. Proposed solutions rely on …

Cooperation is very important in human society and identified as an essential principle of
evolution, but how to promote cooperation among rational individuals remains a huge …

Coordination in open multi-agent systems (MAS) can reduce costs to agents associated with
conflicting goals and actions, allowing artificial societies to attain higher levels of aggregate …

Complex systems often exhibit emergent behaviour, unexpected macro-level behaviour
caused by the interaction of micro-level components. In multiagent systems, these micro …

Social norms regulate actions in artificial societies, steering collective behavior towards
desirable states. In real societies, social norms can solve cooperation dilemmas, constituting …

It is generally known that cooperation can be achieved in complex real-world interactions
that are not limited to direct interactions only. In particular, cooperation can consider prior …