[Modeling] UN and agents

[Marian Nodine]

Is it possible for the position of chair to change during the vote? The chair
rotates among the members, right? If it is time for the chair to rotate, does
the old chair continue to oversee the vote or does the new chair take over?

-- Misty

P.S. I am assuming that we can take a stab at modeling this ourselves, even if
we do not have an official model that we have developed. This will enable some
of us to contribute ideas, who otherwise would not be able to.

"Dr. Hong Zhu" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have summarised the main points of the UN example. It is given below.
> Please notice that I deliberately avoid to use any computer science
> terminology. How to model it is solely down to the modeller.
> ............................................................................
> ...................................................
> Case Study of Agent-Oriented Modelling
> -- The UN Security Council's Procedure to Issue Resolutions
>
> NOTE:
> (1) The following procedure is defined for a case study of agent-oriented
> modelling. It is inspired from the procedure of UN Security Council to pass
> a resolution. However, it does NOT necessary represents the reality.
> (2) There are also some unspecified issues and ambiguity in the
> specification that models in different notations and languages may resolve
> by themselves in the process of modelling.
>
> The UN Security Council (UN-SC) consists of a number of members and some of
> them are permanent members. Members become the Chair of the Security Council
> in turn monthly.
>
> To pass a UN-SC resolution, the following procedure would be followed.
> (1) At least one member of UN-SC submits a proposal to the current Chair;
> (2) The Chair distributes the proposal to all members of UN-SC and set a
> date for a vote on the proposal.
> (3) At a given date that the Chair set, a vote from the members is made;
> (4) Each member of the security council can vote either FOR or AGAINST or
> SUSTAIN;
> (5) The proposal becomes a UN-SC resolution, if the majority of the members
> voted FOR, and no permanent member voted AGAINST.
> (6) The members vote one at a time.
> (7) The Chair calls the order to vote, and it is always the last one to
> vote.
> (8) The vote is open (in other words, when one votes, all the other members
> know the vote)
> (9) The proposing member(s) can withdraw the proposal before the vote starts
> and in that case no vote on the proposal will take place.
> ............................................................................
> ..................................................
>
> Please let me know if I missed any important issue.
>
> Best regards,
> Hong
> ===================================
> Dr. Hong Zhu, Senior Lecturer in Computing
> Dept. of Computing, School of Technology
> Oxford Brookes University
> Wheatley Campus, Oxford OX33 1HX, UK
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> Email: hzhu@brookes.ac.uk
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wagner, G.R." <G.R.Wagner@tm.tue.nl>
> To: "'Dr. Hong Zhu '" <hong.zhu1@btinternet.com>; <modeling@fipa.org>;
> "'Renato Levy '" <rlevy@i-a-i.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:06 PM
> Subject: RE: [Modeling] UN and agents
>
> > > Would it be a good idea if each contributing notation (or method)
> > > gives a description of the UN security council example in its own
> > > notation?
> >
> > Yes, that would be a good exercise.
> >
> > For this purpose, could you please summarize the UN case
> > description including the additions that have been proposed
> > meanwhile?
> >
> > Thanks,  G e r d
> >
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