Handbook of research on multi-agent systems semantics and dynamics of organizational models /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Dignum, Virginia.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Intelligent agents (Computer software); Self-organizing systems.; Agent-based human team support; Artificial institutions in the event calculus; Autonomous agents adopting organizational rules; Dynamic specifications for norm-governed systems; Flexible and robust agent interactions; Framework for dynamic agent organizations; Interactions between organizational networks; Methodologies and frameworks for agent organizations; Modeling dimensions for agent organizations; Organization modeling and analysis; Organizational dynamics; Organizational self-design in worth-oriented domains; Personal assistants for human organizations; Petri net based model for team monitoring; Programming language for normative multi-agent systems; Role of organization in agent systems
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"This book provide a comprehensive view of current developments in agent organizations as a paradigm for both the modeling of human organizations, and for designing effective artificial organizations"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. The Role of Organization in Agent Systems
• Section 1. Methodologies and Frameworks for Agent Organizations
• 2. Modelling Dimensions for Agent Organizations
• 3. Towards an Integral Approach of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
• 4. OMACS: A Framework for Adaptive, Complex Systems
• 5. Hermes: Designing Flexible and Robust Agent Interactions
• Section 2. Formal Approaches for Agent Organizations
• 6. A Formal Framework for Organization Modeling and Analysis
• 7. Describing Agent Societies: A Declarative Semantics
• 8. Structural Aspects of Organizations
• 9. A Logic for Agent Organizations
• Section 3. Interactions in Organizations
• 10. Grounding Organizations in the Minds of the Agents
• 11. Modelling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations
• 12. Communications for Agent-Based Human Team Support
• 13. Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules
• Section 4. Norms and Institutions
• 14. Specifying Artificial Institutions in the Event Calculus
• 15. Verifying Organizations Regulated by Institutions
• 16. A Programming Language for Normative Multi-Agent Systems
• Section 5. Organizational Dynamics
• 17. A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model
• 18. A Framework for Dynamic Agent Organizations
• 19. Dynamic Specifications for Norm-Governed Systems
• 20. Interactions Between Formal and Informal Organizational Networks
• Section 6. Applications
• 21. Personal Assistants for Human Organizations
• 22. Organizational Self-Design in Worth-Oriented Domains
• 23. A Formal Petri Net Based Model for Team Monitoring
• About the Contributors
• Index.