Engineering Faculty, University of Porto
Doctoral Programme in Informatics Engineering
Doctoral Programme in Informatics Engineering
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Engineering Faculty, University of Porto
Doctoral Programme in Informatics Engineering |
Henrique Lopes CardosoContact: hlc 'at' fe.up.ptAdmission Date: September, 2005 Status: In progress Advisor: Prof. Eugénio Oliveira (DEEC/FEUP) Steering Committee: Prof. Luis Camarinha de Matos (FCT/UNL), Prof.a Ana Paula Rocha (DEEC/FEUP), Prof. Eugénio Oliveira (DEEC/FEUP) Agent-based Electronic Institutions that facilitate the automatic creation and exploration of Contracts in Virtual Organization settingsIn multi-agent systems (MAS), interoperability among agents involved in an environment is a paramount issue. When dealing with open systems and in scenarios where agents represent different self-interested entities, there is a need to establish a set of norms that regulate the agents’ behaviour and that ensure the necessary trust enabling the establishment of commitments among agents.Such trusted environments are crucial to allow the real-world application of MAS technology. An increasingly important application domain is business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce, including, besides simple sell and purchase transactions, the formation of consortiums amongst different enterprises, creating Virtual Organizations (VO). The concept of Electronic Institution (EI), whose development and employment comprises our main goal, intends to address the need for trust when automating business relationships, providing a normative environment and rendering services that facilitate the automatic creation and operation of contractual relationships. PublicationsAn Approach to Inter-Organizational Workflow Management in an Electronic Institution. Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Paulo Leitão, Eugénio Oliveira. 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, Special Track Holonic and Multi-agent Technologies for Industrial Systems, Saint-Etienne, France, May 17th-19th 2006.Enriching a MAS Environment with Institutional Services. Andreia Malucelli, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira. In D. Weyns, H. Van Dyke Parunak & F. Michel (eds.), Environments for Multi-Agent Systems II, LNAI 3830, Springer, ISBN: 3-540-32614-6, pp. 105-120, 2006. Supporting Virtual Organizations through Electronic Institutions and Normative Multi-Agent Systems. Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira. In Jean-Philippe Rennard (ed.), Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economy and Management, Idea Group, Inc, 2006. Electronic Institution: an E-contracting Platform for Virtual Organizations. Henrique Lopes Cardoso. In Actas da 1a Conferência de Metodologias de Investigação Científica (CoMIC’06), Programa de Doutoramento em Engenharia Informática, pp. 33-42, FEUP, 9 de Janeiro de 2006. Institutional Services for Dynamic Virtual Organizations. Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Andreia Malucelli, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira. In L. M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh & A. Ortiz (eds.), Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments - 6th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE’05), Springer, ISBN 0-387-28259-9, pp. 521-528, Valencia, Spain, September 26th-28th 2005. Towards an Institutional Environment using Norms for Contract Performance. Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira. In M. Pechoucek, P. Petta & L. Z. Varga (eds.), Multi-Agent Systems and Applications IV - 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2005), LNAI 3690, Springer, ISBN 3-540-29046-X, pp. 256-265, Budapest, Hungary, September 15th-17th 2005. Assisting and Regulating Virtual Enterprise Interoperability through Contracts. Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira. In K. Fischer, A. Berre, K. Elms & J. P. Muller (eds.), Proceedings of AAMAS’2005 Workshop Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interOPerability (ATOP), pp. 1-12, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25th 2005. Virtual Enterprise Normative Framework within Electronic Institutions. Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira. In M.-P. Gleizes, A. Omicini & F. Zambonelli (eds.), Engineering Societies in the Agents World V, LNAI 3451, Springer, ISBN 3-540-27330-1, pp.14-32, 2005. Contributions to an Electronic Institution supporting Virtual Enterprises' life cycle. Ana Paula Rocha, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira. In G. D. Putnik & M. M. Cunha (eds.), Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives, Idea Group Inc., ISBN 1-59140-406-1, pp. 229-246, 2005. |
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