We understand a socio-technical system (STS) as a cyber-physical system in which two or
more autonomous parties interact via or about technical elements, including the parties' …

The viability of the application of the e-Institution paradigm for obtaining overall desired
behavior in open multiagent systems (MAS) lies in the possibility of bringing the norms of the …

ABSTRACT P2P networks have been rapidly spread in the last few years. Nevertheless,
together with its fast development, many security threats have also appeared …

Open and decentralized multiagent systems (ODMAS) are particularly vulnerable to the
introduction of faulty or malevolent agents. Indeed, such systems rely on collective tasks that …

Agent technology has generated lots of excitement in the past decade. Currently, multi-agent
systems (MAS) composed of autonomous agents representing individuals or organizations …

This paper presents a coherentist approach to argumentation that extends previous
proposals on cognitive coherence based agent communication pragmatics (inspired from …

Adaptive organisation-centred multi-agent systems can dynamically modify their
organisational components to better accomplish their goals. Our research line proposes an …

This chapter addresses the problem of building normative multiagent systems in terms of
regulatory mechanisms. It describes a static conceptual model through which one can …

In this paper we extend the logic of violation proposed by [14] with time, more precisely, we
temporalise that logic. The resulting system allows us to capture many subtleties of the …

Normative environments are used to regulate multi-agent interactions. In business
encounters, agents representing business entities make contracts including norms that …