Systems often exhibit hierarchical structures and multiple levels of abstraction, and MultiAgent Systems, even if they have proved their adequacy to model such systems, mains in t...
Sebastian Rodriguez, Nicolas Gaud, Vincent Hilaire...
Virtual Organizations (VOs) are becoming an increasingly important research topic in the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). The problem of selecting suitable counterparts to inte...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
Organizational models have been recently used in agent theory for modeling coordination in open systems and to ensure social order in multi-agent system applications. In this pape...
This paper presents a generic meta-model of multi-agent systems based on organizational concepts such as groups, roles and structures. This model, called AALAADIN, defines a very ...