Institutional Environments
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The concept of environment is of paramount relevance for new strategies to model systems of multiple artificial agents. This paper introduces a set of definitions designed to guide the modelling of institutional environments. This is part of ongoing research on a new strategy to conceptualize multi-robot systems, which takes a network of institutions as the control system for a collective of artificial embodied agents with bounded rationality and bounded autonomy. The definitions, given as structured tuples, attempt to capture a hypothesis on the main constitutive elements of the social order dynamics. That hypothesis is part of the institutional approach, which aims at responding to some difficulties of current perspectives on environment.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008