@conference {3898, title = {Norm enforceability in Electronic Institutions?}, booktitle = {11th International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems (COIN@MALLOW2010)}, year = {2010}, month = {30/08/2010}, pages = {49-64}, address = {Lyon, France}, abstract = {Nowadays Multi-Agent Systems require more and more regulation and normative mechanisms in order to assure the correct and secure execution of the interactions and transactions in the open virtual organization they are implementing. The Electronic Institution approach for developing Multi-Agent Systems implements some enforce- ability mechanisms in order to control norms execution and observance. In this paper we study a complex situation in a regulated environment in which the enforceability mechanisms provided by the current Electronic Institutions implementation cannot deal appropriately with norm observance. The analyzed situation is exemplified with a specific scenario of the mWater regulated environment, an electronic market for water-rights transfer. After this example is presented, we extrapolate it to a more generic domain while also addressing the main issues for its application in general scenarios.}, author = {Natalia Criado and Estefania Argente and Antonio Garrido and Juan A. Gimeno and Francesc Igual and Vicente Botti and Pablo Noriega and Adriana Giret}, editor = {Nicoletta Fornara and George Vouros} }