On the minimal recognition of rights in holonic institutions

Jeremy Pitt; Jie Jiang; Ada Diaconescu

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66595-5_9

On the minimal recognition of rights in holonic institutions

Jeremy Pitt
, Jie Jiang
, Ada Diaconescu

Imperial College London
University of Surrey

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Abstract

In one aspect of her study of collective action, Ostrom proposed eight design principles for the supply of institutions for sustainable common-pool resource management. Computational logic has been used to formalise an executable specification of six of these principles for resource allocation in open multi-agent systems and networks. However, the eighth principle, nested enterprises, is structural rather than procedural, and the seventh principle, minimal recognition of rights, concerns a critical relationship between the components of that structure – not just the right to self-organise, but essentially enough (i.e. minimal) rights to self-organise. In previous work, the idea of holonic institutions has been proposed to satisfy the requirement of polycentric self-governance in complex systems of nested enterprises. This paper investigates the axiomatic specification of Ostrom’s seventh principle as a constraint on the holonic structure and sketches a testbed prototype, as a prelude to a more systematic investigation into values, conflict resolution and the trade-off between rights and powers in holonic institutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII - COIN 2016 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS and COIN@ECAI, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Samhar Mahmoud, Julian Padget, Ana Paula Rocha, Stephen Cranefield
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	149-169
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	9783319665948
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66595-5_9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Event	12th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2016, Co-located with AAMAS 2016 and ECAI 2016 - The Hague, Netherlands Duration: 30 Aug 2016 → 30 Aug 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10315 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	12th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2016, Co-located with AAMAS 2016 and ECAI 2016
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	The Hague
Period	30/08/16 → 30/08/16

Keywords

Conflict resolution
Electronic institutions
Holonic architectures
Powers
Rights
Self-organisation

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Pitt, J., Jiang, J., & Diaconescu, A. (2017). On the minimal recognition of rights in holonic institutions. In S. Mahmoud, J. Padget, A. P. Rocha, & S. Cranefield (Eds.), Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII - COIN 2016 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS and COIN@ECAI, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 149-169). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10315 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66595-5_9

Pitt, Jeremy ; Jiang, Jie ; Diaconescu, Ada. / On the minimal recognition of rights in holonic institutions. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII - COIN 2016 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS and COIN@ECAI, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Samhar Mahmoud ; Julian Padget ; Ana Paula Rocha ; Stephen Cranefield. Springer Verlag, 2017. pp. 149-169 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Pitt, J, Jiang, J & Diaconescu, A 2017, On the minimal recognition of rights in holonic institutions. in S Mahmoud, J Padget, AP Rocha & S Cranefield (eds), Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII - COIN 2016 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS and COIN@ECAI, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10315 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 149-169, 12th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2016, Co-located with AAMAS 2016 and ECAI 2016, The Hague, Netherlands, 30/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66595-5_9

On the minimal recognition of rights in holonic institutions. / Pitt, Jeremy; Jiang, Jie; Diaconescu, Ada.
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII - COIN 2016 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS and COIN@ECAI, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Samhar Mahmoud; Julian Padget; Ana Paula Rocha; Stephen Cranefield. Springer Verlag, 2017. p. 149-169 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10315 LNAI).

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Pitt J, Jiang J, Diaconescu A. On the minimal recognition of rights in holonic institutions. In Mahmoud S, Padget J, Rocha AP, Cranefield S, editors, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII - COIN 2016 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS and COIN@ECAI, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag. 2017. p. 149-169. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-66595-5_9

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