Requirements-Driven Contracting for Open and Norm-Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
Ivan Jureta, Martin J. Kollingbaum, John Mylopoulos, Katia P. Sycara · 2007
Heterogenous agents designed by, and distributed across various providers participate in an open multi-agent system (MAS). Norms (i.e., obligations, prohibitions, and permissions), sanctions, and incentives are enforced within an open MAS to ensure that agents act and interact only in ways that satisfy stakeholders’ requirements. We propose a framework, called Requirements-driven Contracting (RdC) for deriving executable norms, sanctions, and incentives from the requirements and associated relevant information. RdC allows the use of requirements engineering concepts and methods to govern the open MAS. RdC ensures that all requirements, along with runtime changes of requirements are reflected in the norms, sanctions, and incentives regulating the behavior of agents in an open MAS. Status: Started on October 5, 2007; author list and its order are not definite; first complete draft.