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International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems

COIN 2013: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems IX pp 136–154Cite as

Contextualized Institutions in Virtual Organizations

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Within a virtual organization, more than one institution might be involved in the regulation of actors’ behavior. Each institution specifies a set of norms covering a specific aspect of the problem domain with a governance scope defining its remit. Together, they govern the participants and reflect the objectives of the organization. With actors’ behavior being simultaneously regulated by more than one institution, normative conflicts can appear. In this paper, we formalize the notion of governance scope and propose a computational approach to identify weak and strong norm conflicts in virtual organizations. This is achieved by explicitly modeling the governance scopes of institutions through context models. We illustrate our approach by means of a case study concerning food security in international trade.

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    EU, NL and TE refer to the three institutions in the case study: EU being European Union, NL the Netherlands and TE the terminal and warehouse.

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  1. University of Bath, Bath, UK

    Tingting Li, Marina De Vos & Julian Padget

  2. TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands

    Jie Jiang, Huib Aldewereld & Virginia Dignum

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  1. University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

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  2. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

  3. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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Li, T., Jiang, J., Aldewereld, H., De Vos, M., Dignum, V., Padget, J. (2014). Contextualized Institutions in Virtual Organizations. In: Balke, T., Dignum, F., van Riemsdijk, M., Chopra, A. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems IX. COIN 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8386. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07314-9_8

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