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This chapter presents the ANTE framework for Social Coordination. In multi-agent systems, social coordination is related with a number of agreement technologies: negotiation as a means of reaching agreements; organizational or normative structures as social constructs to regulate interactions; trust as a mechanism to assess agent performance when acting while subject to norms. The ANTE framework addresses the issue of social coordination from a comprehensive perspective, exploring negotiation as a mechanism for establishing some normative coordination infrastructure, based on the notion of a contract. Contracts are monitored for compliance, and their enactment phase enables the collection of behavioral data that can be used by computational trust models.
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ANTE stands for Agreement Negotiation in Normative and Trust-enabled Environments.
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Lopes Cardoso, H., Urbano, J., Rocha, A.P., Castro, A.J.M., Oliveira, E. (2016). ANTE: A Framework Integrating Negotiation, Norms and Trust. In: Aldewereld, H., Boissier, O., Dignum, V., Noriega, P., Padget, J. (eds) Social Coordination Frameworks for Social Technical Systems. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33570-4_3
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