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ENHANCING MAS ENVIRONMENTS WITH ORGANIZATIONAL MECHANISMS

SERGIO ESPARCIA

Grupo de Tecnología Informática – Inteligencia Artificial, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera, s/n – 46022 Valencia, Spain

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ESTEFANÍA ARGENTE

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ROBERTO CENTENO

Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, C/ Juan del Rosal, 16 – 28040 Madrid, Spain

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RAMÓN HERMOSO

Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies (CETINIA), University Rey Juan Carlos, C/ Tulipán, s/n – 28933 Móstoles (Madrid), Spain

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218213011000395Cited by:4 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

This work proposes a new coordination system for the environment of a Multi-Agent System by merging the features from two important contributions to this field of research, Organizational Mechanisms and Artifacts. Organizational mechanisms can be introduced into a Multi-Agent System with the aim of influencing the behavior of agents populating it to achieve their goals in a proper way. In this paper, we propose to model organizational mechanisms by means of artifacts, which are non-proactive entities used by agents. Artifacts were presented within the Agents & Artifacts conceptual framework, and that present good advantages for coordinating agents' environments. We put forward a formal model that defines how organizational mechanisms can be designed by using artifacts theory. We validate the approach by presenting a case study focused on a real health care domain problem. Additionally, the Artifacts for Organizational Mechanisms are compared with some different proposed artifacts.

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