Situated Artificial Institution to Support Advanced Regulation in the Field of Crisis Management

Abstract

International audienceThis paper highlights the use of Situated Artificial Institution (SAI) within an hybrid, interactive, normative multi-agent system to regulate human collaboration in crisis management. Norms regulate the actions of human actors based on the dynamics of the environment in which they are situated. This dynamics result both from environment evolution and actors actions. Our objective is to couple norms to environment state to provide a context aware crisis regulation. Introducing a constitutive level between environmental and normative states provides a loosely coupling of norms with the environment. Norms are thus no more referring to environmental facts but to status functions, i.e. institutional interpretation of environmental facts through constitutive rules. We present how this declarative and distinct SAI modelling succeeds in managing the interpretation of the events while taking into account organizational context

Situated artificial institutions: stability, consistency, and flexibility in the regulation of agent societies

“…Variables var are terms starting by an upper case letter. Figure 3 shows the constitutive specification for the use case addressed in [29], where agents collaborate to manage crisis such as flooding, car crashes, etc. They act in an environment composed of geographic information systems (GIS) and of tangible tables [54]where they put objects equipped with RFID tags on to signal their intended actions.…”

“…Theoretical aspects of the presented work were illustrated in this paper through examples from an application on crisis management. In these examples, SAI is proven to be useful to solve some issues [27][28][29][30][31]. As SAI is a general purpose model, applying it to other scenarios that can be modelled as open MAS, such as those pointed in Sect.…”

Application Domains

“…[72], [78] [18] [63] Framework JaCaMo [19] [95] [87], [84], [30] [90] [76,77] ROMAS- [39], [34] [36], [ [8] Electricity market; this example also shows how services may be attached to an electronic institution.…”

“…Small series requires high abstract constructors to simplify its adaptation to new products. [30] Crisis management: definition of a socio-technical system combining tangible surfaces with the JaCaMo platform in synergy with Situated Artificial Institution Model to coordinate human actors participating to different organizations in the management of crisis.…”