Implementing Norms that Govern Non-Dialogical Actions

Abstract

The governance of open multi-agent systems is particular important
since those systems are composed by heterogeneous, autonomous and
independently designed agents. Such governance is usually provided by the
establishment of norms that regulate the actions of agents. Although there are
several approaches that formally describe norms, there are still few of them that
propose their implementation. In additions, only one that provides support for
implementing norms deals with non-dialogical actions since the others only
deal with dialogical actions, i.e., actions that provide the interchange of
messages between agents. In this paper we propose the implementation of
norms that govern non-dialogical actions by extending one of the approaches
that regulate dialogical ones. Non-dialogical actions are not related to the
interactions between agents but to tasks executed by agents that characterize,
for instance, the access to resources, their commitment to play roles or their
movement into environments and organizations.