The Role of Norms and Electronic Institutions in Multi-Agent Systems

I Applying Electronic Institutions and Norms to Complex Domains.- 1 Introduction.- 2 CARREL: an Agent-Mediated System for Organ and Tissue Allocation.- 3 Norms, Agents and Electronic Institutions.- II HARmoNIA: a New Approach to Model Electronic Institutions.- 4 A Multi-Layered Normative Framework for Agents.- 5 A Multi-Layered Framework for Organizations.- 6 Applying HARMONÍA to the Organ and Tissue Allocation Problem.- 7 Conclusions.- III Appendix and Bibliography.- A Medical Data Protection and the Internet.- A.1 Medicine, Information Technology and Privacy.- A.2 Advantages of Electronic Formats for Medical Data.- A.3 Requirements to be Fulfilled.- A.3.1 Requirements from the Medical Community.- A.3.2 Law-Enforced Requirements.- A.4 Privacy and Security of Electronic Medical Data.- A.5 Security Measures for Medical Information Systems.- A.6 Desirable Characteristics of a Medical Information System.- A.7 The New Users of Medical Data.- A.8 Summary.- B The UCTx System.- B.1 Creating a Multi-Agent System for a Hospital's Transplant Unit.- B.2 An Example: The Cornea Transplantation.- B.3 Summary.- List of Acronyms.- Authors Index.