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Current research in autonomous Agents and Multi-agent systems (MAS) has reached a level of maturity sufficient enough for MAS to be applied as a technology for solving problems in an increasingly wide range of complex applications. Our aim in this paper is to define a simple, extendible, and formal framework for multi-agent cooperation, over which businesses may build their business frameworks for effecting cooperative business strategies using distributed multi-agent systems. It is a simple, fair and efficient model for orchestrating effecting cooperation between multiple agents.
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Alshabi, W., Ramaswamy, S., Itmi, M., Abdulrab, H. (2008). A Cooperation Mechanism in Agent Organization. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Advances in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8741-7_87
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