We have released the latest version of the Institutional Grammar (IG) 2.0 Codebook. The IG 2.0 is a revised version of the original Grammar of Institutions by Crawford and Ostrom (1995; 2005) that aims at coding so-called institutional statements (e.g., norms, rules) found in policy
The COINE workshop at AAMAS 2020 was held in Auckland, New Zealand. The International Workshop for Coordination, Organisations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics in Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE) is an evolution of the long-standing COIN workshop series, and for the first time, considers ethics as an explicit
The 2019 edition of the Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2019) will be held in Mainz, Germany. It will include a range of special tracks centered around the theme of “Simulation for Policy”. I will be involved in chairing the Artificial Sociality Track together with Gert
We are currently looking for a PhD candidate for a 3-year or 4-year time frame. The focus of the fellowship is to explore approaches to automating policy analysis by bridging the gap between semi-formal policy specifications and agent-based models. The ideal candidate has a computational
A new version of the DBSCAN extension for the Agent-based Modelling platform NetLogo has been released. The extension can be used to cluster agents based on individual properties or by spatial proximity (e.g., to cluster agents by wealth levels, or by their location). Recent additions
We have recently published an article that contains a review of existing norm life cycle models in the context of Normative Multi-Agent Systems: C. K. Frantz and G. Pigozzi (2018): Modelling Norm Dynamics in Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of Applied Logics – IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their
The 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems will be held in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to the conference, it hosts numerous workshops (opens in new tab) that focus on the engineering, testing, integration and industrial applications of self-organization. Call for Papers (opens new tab)