Handbook of research on multi-agent systems semantics and dynamics of organizational models
Title:
Handbook of research on multi-agent systems semantics and dynamics of organizational models
Author:
Dignum, Virginia.
ISBN:
9781605662572
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xxvi, 602 p. : ill.) : digital files.
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.
Abstract:
"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.
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