2^nd Workshop on

“Norms and Institutions in MAS”

Montreal, Canada, May 29^th, 2001

Welcome and Introduction (9:00-9:15)

Paper Session 1 (9:15-10:15) Trust Management and Market Governance

A Framework for Distributed Trust Management

Lalana Kagal, Scott Cost, Timothy Finin, Yun Peng

A Conceptual Architecture for Market Governance in Trusted Electronic Marketplaces

Mathias Sallé, Michal Morciniec, Brian Monahan

BREAK

Paper Session 2 (10:45-11:45) Norms and Interactions

Implicit Commitments through Protocol-Level Semantics

Gregg Economou, Maksim Tsvetovat, Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci

Normative behavior based on emergent invariant expectations

Sigmar Papendick, Joerg Wellner, Werner Dilger

Position Paper Presentations (11:45-12:30)

Knowledge as Arguments for Facilitating E-commerce Dialogue

John Yearwood and Andrew Stranieri

Towards Regulating Electronic Communities with Contracts

Michal Morciniec, Mathias Salle, Brian Monahan

LUNCH

Paper Session 3 (14:30-15:30) Norms, Institutions and Systems Performance

Norms, Roles, and Simulated RoboCup

Henry Hexmoor and Xin Zhang

Towards a Theory of Flexible Holons:Modelling

Institutions for Making Multi-Agent Systems Robust

Michael Schillo, Ingo Zinnikus, Klaus Fischer

BREAK

Panel Session: Reputation in MAS (16:00-17:00)

Rosaria Conte, Chris Dellarocas, Mario Paolucci

Analyzing the economic efficiency of eBay-like online reputation reporting mechanisms

Chris Dellarocas

False reputation in social control

Mario Paolucci

Discussion and Conclusions (17:00-17:30)