Toward a Normative Approach for Resilient Multiagent Systems: A Summary

We model a multiagent system (MAS) in socio-technical terms, combining a social layer consisting of norms with a technical layer consisting of actions that the agents execute. We express stakeholder needs to ensure that a MAS demonstrates resilience, allowing it to recover effectively from failures within a brief timeframe. This extended abstract presents a framework that computes probabilistic and temporal guarantees on whether the underlying requirements are met or, if failed, recovered. An important contribution of the framework is that it shows how the social and technical layers can be modeled jointly to enable the construction of resilient systems of autonomous agents. This paper facilitates specification refinement through methodological guidelines, emphasizing joint modeling of social and technical layers. We demonstrate our framework using a manufacturing scenario with competing public, industrial, and environmental requirements. This is an extended abstract of our JAAMAS paper available online [11].