Coupling the normative regulation with the constitutive state management in Situated Artificial Institutions

Abstract

Artificial Institutions are systems where the regulation defined through norms is based on an interpretation of the concrete world where the agents are situated and interact. Such interpretation can be defined through constitutive rules. The literature proposes independent approaches for the definition and management of both norms and constitutive rules. However, they are usually either not coupled or coupled in an ad hoc and limiting solution. This paper investigates how to make such a coupling. The main contribution of this paper is a formal model basing the regulation provided by the norms on the institutional interpretation of the world provided by constitutive rules. This contribution is based on the Situated Artificial Institutions model that proposes an integrated model of constitutive rules based on status functions.