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Agent communication and artificial institutions

Fornara, Nicoletta ; Viganò, Francesco ; Colombetti, Marco

In: Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, 2007, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 121-142

In this paper we propose an application-independent model for the definition of artificial institutions that can be used to define open multi-agent systems. Such a model of institutional reality makes us able also to define an objective and external semantics of a commitment-based Agent Communication Language (ACL). In particular we propose to regard an ACL as a set of conventions to act on a...

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Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL

Fornara, Nicoletta ; Colombetti, Marco

In: AI communications, 2010, vol. 23, no. 4, p. 341-356

Monitoring the temporal evolution of obligations and prohibitions is a crucial aspect in the design of open interaction systems. In this paper we regard such obligations and prohibitions as cases of social commitment with starting points and deadlines, and propose to model them in OWL, the logical language recommended by the W3C for SemanticWeb applications. In particular we propose an...