Enabling Open Agent Institutions
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چکیده
In this paper we argue that open multi-agent systems can be effectively designed and implemented as electronic institutions composed of a vast amount of heterogeneous (human and software) agents playing different roles and interacting by means of speech acts. Thus taking inspiration from traditional human institutions, we offer a general agent-mediated computational model of institutions that serves to realise an actual agent-mediated electronic auction house where heterogeneous agents can trade.
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