Structures for agent organizations
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Dignum, V.; Dignum, F.
- Source
- International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, 2005. Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, 2005. International Conference on. :215-220 2005
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Multiagent systems
Contracts
Power system economics
Power generation economics
Environmental economics
Sociology
Psychology
Shape
Intelligent networks
Proposals
- Language
One of the main issues in agent organizations is the specification of coordination mechanisms between agents playing roles in a regulated social environment. Role dependencies indicate some relationship between roles, through which actions can be coordinated. In this paper we will investigate what is the exact nature of this relationship between roles in an organization and what are the consequences of the structure. We will also see what is the difference if the relations are not hierarchical but organized through a market or network structure.