Individual beliefs and group acceptances within agent organizations

Groups of collaborative agents within organizations need to create group awareness in order to act as a single entity. The notion of collective belief, which has been used extensively to cope with group awareness, is not appropriate in organized settings where group members accept that certain states hold based on shared practices, even if some members of the group do not believe that these states hold. This paper distinguishes between individual beliefs and group acceptances and introduces state recognition recipes that drive groups within organizations to create common awareness. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.11 [Artificial Intelligence]: Distributed Artificial Intelligence – multiagent systems, languages and structures, coherence and coordination, language, intelligent agents. General Terms Algorithms, Management, Design, Keywords Acceptance, multiagent systems, group awareness, agent organizations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Ioannis Partsakoulakis, George A. Vouros
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, ATAL 2005, Group Awareness, Multiagent Systems