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Similarly to institutions in human societies, an Electronic Institution (EI) provides a structured framework for a Multi-Agent System (MAS) to regulate agents’ interactions. However, current EIs cannot regulate a previously existing dynamic social system and deal with its agent population behaviour changes. This paper suggests a solution consisting of two EI extensions to incorporate situatedness and adaptation to the institution. These two properties are usually present at an agent level, but this paper studies how to bring them to an organisational level. While exposing our approach, we use a traffic scenario example to illustrate its concepts.
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Campos, J., López-Sánchez, M., Rodríguez-Aguilar, J.A., Esteva, M. (2009). Formalising Situatedness and Adaptation in Electronic Institutions. In: Hübner, J.F., Matson, E., Boissier, O., Dignum, V. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV . COIN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5428. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00443-8_9
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