A Cognitive Architectural Approach to the Institutional Roles of Agent Societies
This paper concerns a formal model to help the
simulation of agent societies where institutional roles and
institutional links can be specified operationally. That is, this paper
concerns institutional roles that can be specified in terms of a minimal behavioral capability that an agent should have in order to
enact that role and, thus, to perform the set of institutional functions that role is responsible for. Correspondingly, the paper concerns
institutional links that can be specified in terms of a minimal
interactional capability that two agents should have in order to, while
enacting the two institutional roles that are linked by that institutional
link, perform for each other the institutional functions supported by
that institutional link. The paper proposes a cognitive architecture
approach to institutional roles and institutional links, that is, an approach in which a institutional role is seen as an abstract cognitive
architecture that should be implemented by any concrete agent (or set of concrete agents) that enacts the institutional role, and in which
institutional links are seen as interactions between the two abstract
cognitive agents that model the two linked institutional roles. We
introduce a cognitive architecture for such purpose, called the
Institutional BCC (IBCC) model, which lifts Yoav Shoham-s BCC
(Beliefs-Capabilities-Commitments) agent architecture to social
contexts. We show how the resulting model can be taken as a means
for a cognitive architecture account of institutional roles and
institutional links of agent societies. Finally, we present an example
of a generic scheme for certain fragments of the social organization
of agent societies, where institutional roles and institutional links are
given in terms of the model.
[1] Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, and Leendert van der Torre. Relationships meet their roles in object oriented programming. In
F. Arbab and M. Sirjani, editors, FSEN 2007 - International Symposium
on Fundamentals of Software Engineering. Springer (LNCS.
[2] Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, and Leendert van der Torre. Interaction
between objects in powerjava. Journal of Object Tecnhology, 2(2), 2003.
[3] Cristiano Castelfranchi. Commitments: From individual intentions to groups and organizations. In Victor Lesser and Les Gasser, editors, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiagent Systems
- ICMAS 95, pages 41-48, Cambridge, 1995. MIT Press.
[4] Cristiano Castelfranchi. Formalising the informal? dynamic social order, bottom-up control, and spontaneous normative relations. Journal
of Applied Logic, 1(1):47-92, 2003.
[5] Cristiano Castelfranchi and Rino Falcone. From task delegation to role
delegation. In AI*IA 97: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, LNCS
1321, pages 278-289. Springer, Berlin, 1997.
[6] James S. Coleman. Foundations of Social Theory. Havard Univ. Press,
Cambridge, 1994.
[7] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. Introducing service schemes and systems organization in the theory of
interactive computation. In Arnold Beckmann, Costas Dimitracopoulos,
and Benedikt Löwe, editors, Logic and Theory of Algorithms, Fourth
Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2008, pages 87-96, Athens, 2008.
[8] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. Semantical concepts for a formal structural dynamics of situated
multiagent systems. In J. Sichman, P. Noriega, J. Padget, and Norms in Agent Systems III, number 4870 in LNAI, pages 139-154.
Springer, Berlin, 2008.
[9] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro.
Introducing social groups and group exchanges in the PopOrg model. In
Proceedings of AAMAS 2009, volume 1, pages 1297-1298, Budapest,
2009. IFAAMAS.
[10] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. A minimal
dynamical organization model. In V. Dignum, editor, Multi-Agent
Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, pages
419-445. IGI Global, Hershey, 2009.
[11] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. On the
interactional account of the social functions of agent societies. In
Proceedings of the BWSS 2010 - 2nd Brazilian Workshop on Social
Simulation, São Bernando do Campo, 2010. SBC - Sociedade Brasileira
de Computação.
[12] Virginia Dignum, editor. Multi-Agent Systems - Semantics and
Dynamics of Organizational Models. IGI Global, Hershey, 2009.
[13] Jomi F. H├╝bner, Jaime S. Sichman, and Olivier Boissier. Developing
organised multi-agent systems using the MOISE+ model: Programming
issues at the system and agent levels. International Journal of Agent-
Oriented Software Engineering, 1(3-4):370-395, 2007.
[14] Carl Hewitt. Viewing control structures as patterns of passing messages.
Artificial Intelligence, 8(3), June 1977.
[15] John Laird, Paul Rosenbloom, and Allen Newell. Soar: An architecture
for general intelligence. Artificial Intelligence, 33(1):1-64, September
1987.
[16] Bronislaw Malinowski. A Scientific Theory of Culture, and other essays.
The University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
[17] Pablo Noriega, Carles Sierra, and Juan Rodríguez. The Fishmarket
Project. Reflections on agent-mediated institutions for trustworthy ecommerce.
In Proc. Work. Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce, Intl.
Conf. Electronic Commerce, Seoul, 1998.
[18] Carl Adam Petri. Introduction to Net Theory. In W. Brauer, editor, Net
Theory and Applications, number 84 in LNCS, pages 1-19. Berlin,
Springer-Verlag, 1980.
[19] Anand S. Rao and Michael P. Georgeff. Bdi agents: from theory to
practice. In Proceedings of ICMAS 95, pages 312-319, San Francisco,
June 1995.
[20] W. Richard Scott. Institutions and Organizations - Ideas and Interests.
Sage Publications, Los Angeles, 2008.
[21] John R. Searle. The Construction of Social Reality. The Free Press, New
York, 1995.
[22] Yoav Shoham. Agent oriented programming. Artificial Intelligence,
60(1):51-92, 1993.
[23] Munindar P. Singh. An ontology for commitments in multiagent
systems: Toward a unification of normative concepts. Artificial
Intelligence and Law, 7(1):97-113, 1999.
[24] Luca Tummolini and Cristiano Castelfranchi. The cognitive and
behavioral mediation of institutions: Towards an account of institutional
actions. Cognitive Systems Research, 7:307-326, 2006.
[25] Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Huib Aldewereld, and Frank Dignum. Norms in
multiagent systems: some implementation guidelines. In Second
European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, pages 737-748,
Barcelona, 2004.
[26] Eric Werner. Toward a theory of communication and cooperation for
multiagent planning. In Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about
Knowledge, pages 129-143. Morgan-Kaufman, 1988.
[1] Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, and Leendert van der Torre. Relationships meet their roles in object oriented programming. In
F. Arbab and M. Sirjani, editors, FSEN 2007 - International Symposium
on Fundamentals of Software Engineering. Springer (LNCS.
[2] Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, and Leendert van der Torre. Interaction
between objects in powerjava. Journal of Object Tecnhology, 2(2), 2003.
[3] Cristiano Castelfranchi. Commitments: From individual intentions to groups and organizations. In Victor Lesser and Les Gasser, editors, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiagent Systems
- ICMAS 95, pages 41-48, Cambridge, 1995. MIT Press.
[4] Cristiano Castelfranchi. Formalising the informal? dynamic social order, bottom-up control, and spontaneous normative relations. Journal
of Applied Logic, 1(1):47-92, 2003.
[5] Cristiano Castelfranchi and Rino Falcone. From task delegation to role
delegation. In AI*IA 97: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, LNCS
1321, pages 278-289. Springer, Berlin, 1997.
[6] James S. Coleman. Foundations of Social Theory. Havard Univ. Press,
Cambridge, 1994.
[7] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. Introducing service schemes and systems organization in the theory of
interactive computation. In Arnold Beckmann, Costas Dimitracopoulos,
and Benedikt Löwe, editors, Logic and Theory of Algorithms, Fourth
Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2008, pages 87-96, Athens, 2008.
[8] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. Semantical concepts for a formal structural dynamics of situated
multiagent systems. In J. Sichman, P. Noriega, J. Padget, and Norms in Agent Systems III, number 4870 in LNAI, pages 139-154.
Springer, Berlin, 2008.
[9] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro.
Introducing social groups and group exchanges in the PopOrg model. In
Proceedings of AAMAS 2009, volume 1, pages 1297-1298, Budapest,
2009. IFAAMAS.
[10] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. A minimal
dynamical organization model. In V. Dignum, editor, Multi-Agent
Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, pages
419-445. IGI Global, Hershey, 2009.
[11] Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. On the
interactional account of the social functions of agent societies. In
Proceedings of the BWSS 2010 - 2nd Brazilian Workshop on Social
Simulation, São Bernando do Campo, 2010. SBC - Sociedade Brasileira
de Computação.
[12] Virginia Dignum, editor. Multi-Agent Systems - Semantics and
Dynamics of Organizational Models. IGI Global, Hershey, 2009.
[13] Jomi F. H├╝bner, Jaime S. Sichman, and Olivier Boissier. Developing
organised multi-agent systems using the MOISE+ model: Programming
issues at the system and agent levels. International Journal of Agent-
Oriented Software Engineering, 1(3-4):370-395, 2007.
[14] Carl Hewitt. Viewing control structures as patterns of passing messages.
Artificial Intelligence, 8(3), June 1977.
[15] John Laird, Paul Rosenbloom, and Allen Newell. Soar: An architecture
for general intelligence. Artificial Intelligence, 33(1):1-64, September
1987.
[16] Bronislaw Malinowski. A Scientific Theory of Culture, and other essays.
The University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
[17] Pablo Noriega, Carles Sierra, and Juan Rodríguez. The Fishmarket
Project. Reflections on agent-mediated institutions for trustworthy ecommerce.
In Proc. Work. Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce, Intl.
Conf. Electronic Commerce, Seoul, 1998.
[18] Carl Adam Petri. Introduction to Net Theory. In W. Brauer, editor, Net
Theory and Applications, number 84 in LNCS, pages 1-19. Berlin,
Springer-Verlag, 1980.
[19] Anand S. Rao and Michael P. Georgeff. Bdi agents: from theory to
practice. In Proceedings of ICMAS 95, pages 312-319, San Francisco,
June 1995.
[20] W. Richard Scott. Institutions and Organizations - Ideas and Interests.
Sage Publications, Los Angeles, 2008.
[21] John R. Searle. The Construction of Social Reality. The Free Press, New
York, 1995.
[22] Yoav Shoham. Agent oriented programming. Artificial Intelligence,
60(1):51-92, 1993.
[23] Munindar P. Singh. An ontology for commitments in multiagent
systems: Toward a unification of normative concepts. Artificial
Intelligence and Law, 7(1):97-113, 1999.
[24] Luca Tummolini and Cristiano Castelfranchi. The cognitive and
behavioral mediation of institutions: Towards an account of institutional
actions. Cognitive Systems Research, 7:307-326, 2006.
[25] Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Huib Aldewereld, and Frank Dignum. Norms in
multiagent systems: some implementation guidelines. In Second
European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, pages 737-748,
Barcelona, 2004.
[26] Eric Werner. Toward a theory of communication and cooperation for
multiagent planning. In Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about
Knowledge, pages 129-143. Morgan-Kaufman, 1988.
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simulation of agent societies where institutional roles and
institutional links can be specified operationally. That is, this paper
concerns institutional roles that can be specified in terms of a minimal behavioral capability that an agent should have in order to
enact that role and, thus, to perform the set of institutional functions that role is responsible for. Correspondingly, the paper concerns
institutional links that can be specified in terms of a minimal
interactional capability that two agents should have in order to, while
enacting the two institutional roles that are linked by that institutional
link, perform for each other the institutional functions supported by
that institutional link. The paper proposes a cognitive architecture
approach to institutional roles and institutional links, that is, an approach in which a institutional role is seen as an abstract cognitive
architecture that should be implemented by any concrete agent (or set of concrete agents) that enacts the institutional role, and in which
institutional links are seen as interactions between the two abstract
cognitive agents that model the two linked institutional roles. We
introduce a cognitive architecture for such purpose, called the
Institutional BCC (IBCC) model, which lifts Yoav Shoham-s BCC
(Beliefs-Capabilities-Commitments) agent architecture to social
contexts. We show how the resulting model can be taken as a means
for a cognitive architecture account of institutional roles and
institutional links of agent societies. Finally, we present an example
of a generic scheme for certain fragments of the social organization
of agent societies, where institutional roles and institutional links are
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