Dynamic electronic institutions in agent oriented cloud robotic systems

Dynamic electronic institutions in agent oriented cloud robotic systems

The dot-com bubble bursted in the year 2000 followed by a swift movement towards resource virtualization and cloud computing business model. Cloud computing emerged not as new form of computing or network technology but a mere remoulding of existing technologies to suit a new business model. Cloud robotics is understood as adaptation of cloud computing ideas for robotic applications. Current ef...

Securing Open Multi-agent Systems Governed by Electronic Institutions

Engineering Open Multi-Agent Systems as Electronic Institutions

In this demo we focus on the engineering of open multi-agent systems as electronic institutions. Electronic institutions are a formalism to define the rules which structure agent interactions, establishing what agents are permitted and forbidden to do. We present a set of tools that support the specification, analysis and execution of institutions, as well as the implementation of agents. Our m...

Probing Attacks on Multi-Agent Systems Using Electronic Institutions

In open multi-agent systems, electronic institutions are used to form the interaction environment by defining social norms for group behaviour. However, as this paper shows, electronic institutions can be turned against agents to breach their security in a variety of ways. We focus our attention on probing attacks using electronic institutions specified in the Lightweight Coordination Calculus ...

Requesting agent participation in electronic institutions

The Electronic Institutions (EIs) framework is designed for regulating interactions among heterogeneous agents in open systems [1]. In EIs, agent interactions are speech acts whose exchange is organized as conversation protocols called scenes. Agents can participate simultaneously in multiple scenes playing a single role in each one of them. However, at some point, the execution of a given scen...