Revising Institutions Governed by Institutions for Compliant Regulations

Thomas King, Tingting Li, Marina De Vos, Catholijn Jonker, J Padget, Birna van Riemsdijk

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Abstract

Institutions governing multi-agent systems (MASs) are a pervasive means to guide agents towards the aims of the MAS (e.g. collecting data) with regulations on the outcomes of agents’ behaviour. Yet, wider organisations/governments often intend to guide the design of institutions governing MAS in meeting different aims (e.g. preserving the rights of agents). A pervasive means to guide the design of MAS-governing institutions (or any institution, for that matter) is to use institutions at higher tiers of governance (e.g. directives, constitutions) to regulate the regulations of institutions at lower tiers of governance (e.g. national legislation, software policies). A recent innovation has been an automated means to determine the compliance of a lower-tier institution’s regulations with a higher-tier’s. However, for a designer of a non-compliant institution there remains a dilemma: be punished for non-compliant regulations or arduously determine and rectify the underlying causes of non-compliance. In this paper we propose a way to automatically determine how to revise an institution to be compliant that also minimises the change in the regulations’ outcomes thus keeping as closely as possible to the institution designers’ original intentions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCoordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XI COIN 2015
Subtitle of host publicationInternational Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems
EditorsV. Dignum, P. Noriega, M. Sensoy, J.S. Sichman
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages191-208
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-42691-4
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-42690-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventThe XIX International Workshop on Coordination, Organisation, Institutions and Norms in MAS, COIN@AAMAS2015, Istanbul, Turkey - s.l.
Duration: 4 May 20158 May 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer International Publishing AG
Volume9628
ISSN (Electronic)0302-9743

Conference

ConferenceThe XIX International Workshop on Coordination, Organisation, Institutions and Norms in MAS, COIN@AAMAS2015, Istanbul, Turkey
Period4/05/158/05/15

Keywords

  • Multi-tier institutions
  • Norm revision
  • Institution revision
  • Institutional compliance

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