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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2016, Volume 17, Issue 4 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1500369

Supporting flexible regulation of crisismanagement by means of situated artificial institution Project supported by CAPES-PDSE (No. 4926145), CNPq (Nos. 448462/2014-1 and 306301/2012-1) and ARC 6 Region Rh?ne-Alpes (No. ARC-13-009716-01) A preliminary version was presented at the 13th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, June 3–4, 2015, Spain

1. Federal University of Santa Catarina, UFSC/CTC/DAS/PPGEAS- PO Box 476, Florianópolis, SC 88040-900, Brazil.2. LIG/Université de Grenoble, Grenoble 38041, France.3. Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR CNRS 5516, Institut Henri Fayol, MINES Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne 42023, France

Available online: 2016-04-20

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Abstract

This paper highlights the use of situated artificial institution (SAI) within a 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 results from both environment evolution and actors’ actions. Our objective is to situate norms in the environment in order to provide a context-aware crisis regulation. However, this coupling must be a loose one to keep both levels independent and easyto-change in order to face the complex and changing crisis situations. To that aim, we introduce a constitutive level between environmental and normative states providing a loose coupling of normative regulation with environment evolution. Norms are thus no more referring to environmental facts but to status functions, i.e., the institutional interpretation of environmental facts through constitutive rules. We present how this declarative and distinct SAI modelling succeeds in managing the crisis with a context-aware crisis regulation.

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