Enabling Open Agent Institutions
Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
In this paper we argue that open multi-agent systems can be effectively designed and implemented as electronic institutions composed of a vast number of heterogeneous (human and software) agents playing different roles and interacting by means of speech acts. Thus taking inspiration from traditional human institutions, we offer a general agent-mediated computational model of institutions that serves to realise an actual agent-mediated electronic auction house where heterogeneous agents can trade. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.