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Abstract  Software agents’ ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement
on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, used to describe the context of the interaction and [...]

Abstract  In this paper we address the problem of defining social roles in multi-agent systems. Social roles provide the basic structure
of social institutions and organizations. We start from the properties attributed to roles both in the [...]

Abstract  While the sociality of software agents drives toward the definition of institutions for multi agent systems, their autonomy
requires that such institutions are ruled by appropriate norm mechanisms. Computational institutions [...]

Abstract  In order to design and implement electronic institutions that incorporate norms governing the behavior of the participants
of those institutions, some crucial steps should be taken. The first problem is that human norms are (on [...]