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In this paper we summarize the results obtained so far in the course of the Fishmarket project concerning the study of the formalization, design and construction of agent-mediated electronic institutions (AMIs). We argue that AMIs are the most appropriate social structure for a large variety of multi-agent systems. Here we present the realization of an actual AMI, FM, inspired on the traditional fish market that we employ as a case study in our proposal for the formalization of electronic institutions.
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Rodríguez-Aguilar, J.A., Martín, F.J., Garcia, P., Noriega, P., Sierra, C. (1999). Towards a Formal Specification of Complex Social Structures in Multi-agent Systems. In: Padget, J.A. (eds) Collaboration between Human and Artificial Societies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1624. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10703260_17
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