Towards Data- and Norm-Aware Multiagent Systems

Revised, Selected, and Invited Papers of the 4th Int. Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2016). Volume 10093 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2016.

We recall the key abstractions and models on which the major approaches to software specification rely, using Meyer's forces of computation as dimensions of comparison. Based on the identified strengths and lacks, we introduce data-awareness and of norm-awareness as recommended properties, explaining the advantages they bring about. We show that multiagent systems are a good candidate for the development of a data- and norm-aware programming, tracing directions for the realization of multiagent systems that are data and norm-aware. Finally, we report and comment some proposals from the multiagent systems literature that, though developed independently and not inserted in an organic framework, already face specific aspects that are relevant to bring about norm and data-awareness.

@inproceedings{EMAS-2016,
   title = "Towards Data- and Norm-Aware Multiagent Systems",
   year = "2016",
   author = "Matteo Baldoni and Cristina Baroglio and Diego Calvanese and
Roberto Micalizio and Marco Montali",
   booktitle = "Revised, Selected, and Invited Papers of the 4th Int. Workshop
on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2016)",
   pages = "22--38",
   volume = "10093",
   publisher = "Springer",
   series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
   doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-50983-9_2",
}