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A Normative and Intentional Agent Model for Organisation Modelling

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World III (ESAW 2002)

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This paper proposes a new agent model, including normative aspects based on studies from social psychology. The three main model components are the Epistemic, Deontic and Axiologic components. This model structure facilitates the representation of normative organisational knowledge and processes as well as the relations between individual and social interests. Instead of manipulating the notions of belief, intention, desire, commitment, goal and obligation, the only primitives needed are belief and generalized goal.

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  1. Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Instituto, Politécnico de Setúbal, Rua Vale de Chaves, 2910, Estefanilha, Setúbal, Portugal

    Joaquim Filipe

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  1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Agents and New Media Group, Schottengasse 3, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  2. AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme, Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Informatik, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Allegri 13, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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Filipe, J. (2003). A Normative and Intentional Agent Model for Organisation Modelling. In: Petta, P., Tolksdorf, R., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World III. ESAW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2577. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39173-8_4

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