Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems

From the reviews: "Contributions in this book show how further computer science can get much further in capturing and rigorously describing interaction dynamics within and between organizations. the book poses many questions and provides interesting innovative answers that are of use for computer scientists, but also for economists, policy makers, philosophers, sociologists and cognitive scientists. The book preface writers claim that the result is a well-balanced collection of high-quality papers that really can be called representative of the field at the moment. I do agree with them." (Paolo Turrini, JASSS, February, 2007)

Modelling, Analyzing and Programming Organizations.- A Coordination Framework Based on the Sociology of Organized Action.- Formal Modeling and Analysis of Organizations.- Towards Sustained Team Effectiveness.- Verification and Analysis of Organisational Change.- : A Middleware for Developing Organised Multi-agent Systems.- Modelling and Analyzing Institutions.- Fencing the Open Fields: Empirical Concerns on Electronic Institutions (Invited Paper).- Specifying and Analysing Agent-Based Social Institutions Using Answer Set Programming.- Modeling Control Mechanisms with Normative Multiagent Systems: The Case of the Renewables Obligation.- Computational Institutions for Modelling Norm-Regulated MAS: An Approach Based on Coordination Artifacts.- An Event Driven Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions.- Modelling Normative Designs.- Designing Normative Behaviour Via Landmarks.- Design by Contract Deontic Design Language for Multiagent Systems.- Informed Deliberation During Norm-Governed Practical Reasoning.- Organizations in Artificial Social Systems.- Evaluation and Regulation.- Exploring Congruence Between Organizational Structure and Task Performance: A Simulation Approach.- Verifying Norm Compliancy of Protocols.- A Rule Language for Modelling and Monitoring Social Expectations in Multi-agent Systems.