1. The Agent Oriented Ontology of Social Reality: Are Roles Agents? Guido Boella Dipartimento di Informatica – Torino joint work with Leendert van der Torre CWI – Amsterdam & TUDelft

19. Anticipatory coordination Agent1 B’ G’  Agent2 B G Agent1 B’ G’  ’ AGENT2 has a PROFILE of AGENT1 TO PREDICT IT

31. Anticipatory coordination Agent1 B’ G’  Agent2 B G Agent1 B’ G’  AGENT1 has a PROFILE of ROLE TO DESCRIBE EXPECTED BEHAVIOR  ’ ROLE2 B’’ G’’

36. Dialog games Agent1 B G  Speaker-ROLE B’ G’ Speaker-ROLE B’’ G’’

42. Collective acceptance f i G V B d collective attribution f G B f G B f G B social reality normative system/ organization d d d reality agents MAS

46. Example of game - e j c - V(a,n) s … NS - V(a,n’) s’ … NS’ agent a NS

51. Delegation of power f i G V B d collective attribution f G B f G B f G B social reality normative system/ organization d d d reality agents MAS a -> s

52. Behavior is sanctioned NS B G O  Agent B G NS B G O s legal classification of reality Obligations for agents Goals of the normative system

54. Behavior changes the NS NS B G O  Agent B’’ G’’ NS’ B’ G’ O’ s’

55. Social ontology

56. Social ontology AGENTS

57. Social ontology AGENT DESCRIPTION

58. Social ontology MENTAL ATTITUDES

59. Social ontology PROPOSITIONS

60. Social ontology MENTAL ATTITUDES DESCRIBED BY RULES

61. MOST IMPORTANT AGENTS ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTIONS TO OTHER AGENTS

62. Normative ontology NORMATIVE AGENT

63. Normative ontology Institutional facts

64. Normative ontology Regulative norms Constitutive norms

65. Legal institutions Regulative norms Norm modification

67. ROLES ARE AGENTS AGENTS ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTIONS TO ROLES AS AGENTS

70. Social ontology

72. ROLE PLAYING RELATION

74. Organizations are agents f i G V B d collective attribution f G B f G B f G B social reality organization d d d reality agents MAS

75. Organizations are agents f i G B d f i G V B d f i G B d collective attribution f i G B d f G B f G B f G B social reality attribution organization roles role play d d d reality agents MAS

77. f i G D B a f i G D V B d Role Organization AD

78. f i G D B a f i G D V B d Role Organization AD a -> s

79. f i G D B a f i G D V B d Role Organization AD f i G D B b Agent a -> s role play

80. f i G D B a f i G D V B d Role Organization AD f i G D B b Agent a -> s b -> a role play