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Institutions, also referred to as normative systems, offer a means to govern open systems, in particular open multi-agent systems. Research in logics, and subsequently tools, has led to support for the specification, verification and enactment of institutions. Most effort to date has focused on the design-time properties of institutions (either on the normative or the system level), such as whether a particular state of affairs is reachable or not from a given set of initial conditions. Such models are useful in forcing the designer to state their intentions precisely, and for testing (design-time) properties. However, we identify two problems in the direct utilization of design-time models in the governance of live (run-time) systems: (i) over-specification of constraints on agent autonomy and (ii) generation of design-time model artefacts. In this paper we present a methodology to tackle these two problems and extract run-time reasoning components from a design-time model. We demonstrate how to derive an event-based run-time model of institutions that can be incorporated into the capabilities of autonomous BDI agents to address the issues above in order to realize practical norm-governed multi-agent systems.
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Balke, T., De Vos, M., Padget, J. (2012). Normative Run-Time Reasoning for Institutionally-Situated BDI Agents. In: Cranefield, S., van Riemsdijk, M.B., Vázquez-Salceda, J., Noriega, P. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent System VII. COIN 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35545-5_8
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