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title: "Communicating Open Systems: Extended Abstract"
authors:
  - "Mark d'Inverno"
  - "Michael Luck"
  - "Pablo Noriega"
  - "Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar"
  - "Carles Sierra"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/475"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/0475.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2013
pages: "3146-3149"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Communicating Open Systems: Extended Abstract

Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck, Pablo Noriega, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 3146-3149.

## Abstract

Just as conventional institutions are organisational structures for coordinating the activities of multiple interacting individuals, electronic institutions providea computational analogue for coordinating theactivities of multiple interacting software agents.In this paper, we argue that open multi-agent systemscan be effectively designed and implementedas electronic institutions, for which we provide acomprehensive computational model. More specifically, the paper provides an operational semanticsfor electronic institutions, specifying the essential data structures, the state representation a