Communicating open systems (extended abstract)
Mark d’Inverno, G. Flucke, Pablo Noriega, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra · DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) · 2013
Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions provide a computational analogue for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting software agents. In this paper, we argue that open multi-agent systems can be effectively designed and implemented as electronic institutions, for which we provide a comprehensive computational model. More specifically, the paper provides an operational semantics for electronic institutions, specifying the essential data structures, the state representation and the key operations necessary to implement them.