In the paper, we argue that open agent organizations can be effectively designed and implemented, as institutionalized electronic organizations {electronic institutions} composed of a vast amount of heterogeneous (human and software) agents playing different roles and interacting by means of illocutions. Here we present the principal components that define an electronic institution.
Citation:
M. Esteva, J. Rodríguez-Aguilar, J. Arcos, C. Sierra, P. Garcia, "Institutionalizing Open Multi-Agent Systems," icmas, pp.0381, Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'00), 2000