Holonic institutions for multi-scale polycentric self-governance

Ada Diaconescu; Jeremy Pitt

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_2

Holonic institutions for multi-scale polycentric self-governance

Ada Diaconescu
, Jeremy Pitt

Imperial College London

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Abstract

Effective institutions are key to the success of self-governing systems, yet specifying and maintaining them can be challenging, especially in large-scale, highly dynamic and competitive contexts. Political economist Elsinore Ostrom has studied the conventional arrangements for sustainable natural resource management and derived from these eight design principles for self-governing institutions. One principle, nested enterprises, is straightforwardly expressed, but is arguably structural rather than functional, and so is more resistant to declarative specification; yet it also appears to be critical to the effectiveness of complex compositional systems. In this paper, we converge the ideas of holonic systems with electronic institutions, to propose a formalisation of this principle based on holonic institutions. We show how holonic institutions provide a structural framework for nested enterprises, which can be designed as composite systems of systems. This, we believe, is compatible with Ostrom’s ideas for polycentric governance of complex systems. We use a case study in energy distribution to illustrate these ideas.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X - COIN 2014 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Pankaj Telang, Aditya Ghose, John Thangarajah, Nir Oren
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	19-35
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9783319254197
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_2
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015
Event	10th International Conference on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2014 - Paris, France Duration: 6 May 2016 → 6 May 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9372
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	10th International Conference on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2014
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	6/05/16 → 6/05/16

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Electronic institutions
Holonic architectures
Multi-agent systems
Polycentric governance
Self-organising systems
Smartgrids

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Diaconescu, A., & Pitt, J. (2015). Holonic institutions for multi-scale polycentric self-governance. In P. Telang, A. Ghose, J. Thangarajah, & N. Oren (Eds.), Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X - COIN 2014 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 19-35). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9372). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_2

Diaconescu, Ada ; Pitt, Jeremy. / Holonic institutions for multi-scale polycentric self-governance. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X - COIN 2014 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Pankaj Telang ; Aditya Ghose ; John Thangarajah ; Nir Oren. Springer Verlag, 2015. pp. 19-35 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Diaconescu, A & Pitt, J 2015, Holonic institutions for multi-scale polycentric self-governance. in P Telang, A Ghose, J Thangarajah & N Oren (eds), Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X - COIN 2014 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9372, Springer Verlag, pp. 19-35, 10th International Conference on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2014, Paris, France, 6/05/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_2

Holonic institutions for multi-scale polycentric self-governance. / Diaconescu, Ada; Pitt, Jeremy.
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X - COIN 2014 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Pankaj Telang; Aditya Ghose; John Thangarajah; Nir Oren. Springer Verlag, 2015. p. 19-35 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9372).

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Diaconescu A, Pitt J. Holonic institutions for multi-scale polycentric self-governance. In Telang P, Ghose A, Thangarajah J, Oren N, editors, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X - COIN 2014 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag. 2015. p. 19-35. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_2

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