Towards a Monitoring Framework for Agent-Based Contract Systems

Noura  Faci; Sanjay Modgil; Nir Oren; Felipe Meneguzzi; Simon Miles; Michael Luck

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85834-8_23

Towards a Monitoring Framework for Agent-Based Contract Systems

Noura Faci, Sanjay Modgil, Nir Oren, Felipe Meneguzzi, Simon Miles, Michael Luck

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Abstract

The behaviours of autonomous agents may deviate from those deemed to be for the good of the societal systems of which they are a part. Norms have therefore been proposed as a means to regulate agent behaviours in open and dynamic systems, and may be encoded in electronic contracts in order to specify the obliged, permitted and prohibited behaviours of agents that are signatories to such contracts. Enactment and management of electronic contracts thus enables the use of regulatory mechanisms to ensure that agent behaviours comply with the encoded norms. To facilitate such mechanisms requires monitoring in order to detect and explain violation of norms. In this paper we propose a framework for monitoring that is to be implemented and integrated into a suite of contract enactment and management tools. The framework adopts a non-intrusive approach to monitoring, whereby the states of a contract with respect to its contained norms can be inferred on the basis of messages exchanged. Specifically, the framework deploys agents that observe messages sent between contract signatories, where these messages correspond to agent behaviours and therefore indicate whether norms are, or are in danger of, being violated.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cooperative Information Agents XII
Subtitle of host publication	12th International Workshop, CIA 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-12, 2008. Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Pages	292 - 305
Number of pages	14
Volume	5180
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540858348
ISBN (Print)	9783540858331
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85834-8_23
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	12th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA’08) - Duration: 1 Jan 2008 → …

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Volume	5180
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	12th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA’08)
Period	1/01/2008 → …

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Faci, N., Modgil, S., Oren, N., Meneguzzi, F., Miles, S., & Luck, M. (2008). Towards a Monitoring Framework for Agent-Based Contract Systems. In Cooperative Information Agents XII: 12th International Workshop, CIA 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-12, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 5180, pp. 292 - 305). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5180). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85834-8_23

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Faci, N, Modgil, S, Oren, N, Meneguzzi, F, Miles, S & Luck, M 2008, Towards a Monitoring Framework for Agent-Based Contract Systems. in Cooperative Information Agents XII: 12th International Workshop, CIA 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-12, 2008. Proceedings. vol. 5180, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5180, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 292 - 305, 12th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA’08), 1/01/2008. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85834-8_23

Towards a Monitoring Framework for Agent-Based Contract Systems. / Faci, Noura ; Modgil, Sanjay; Oren, Nir et al.
Cooperative Information Agents XII: 12th International Workshop, CIA 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-12, 2008. Proceedings. Vol. 5180 Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. p. 292 - 305 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5180).

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Faci N, Modgil S, Oren N, Meneguzzi F, Miles S , Luck M. Towards a Monitoring Framework for Agent-Based Contract Systems. In Cooperative Information Agents XII: 12th International Workshop, CIA 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-12, 2008. Proceedings. Vol. 5180. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2008. p. 292 - 305. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-85834-8_23

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