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Increasing collaborative work and distributing information creates a request for large-scale and flexible systems in regulated environments. A promising approach in the field of multi-agent system is the design and development of complex, hierarchical and critical systems. These systems require both a hierarchical structure that allows to make together different levels of abstraction within the same system and require the maintenance of social control of the various entities involved in these systems by using social norms. Several proposals on normative models for multi-agent systems have been made in order to design agent societies in norms-based environments. However, they are not adapted to support holonic systems, i.e. those who allow to model complex organizations involving several levels simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a new metamodel, called NCRIO (Norm, Capacity, Role, Interaction, and Organization), for the design of normative holonic multi-agent systems (NHMAS). This metamodel is an extension of the CRIO (Capacity, Role, Interaction, and Organization) metamodel, which allows the design of holonic multi-agent systems (HMAS). The NCRIO metamodel retains the properties of the HMASs and adds normative concepts (Norms and Contracts) to maintain social control in these systems. This new metamodel allows the design for complex (which require a hierarchical structure) and critical (which require social control) systems.
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Missaoui, E., Mazigh, B., Bhiri, S., Hilaire, V. (2017). NCRIO: A Normative Holonic Metamodel for Multi-agent Systems. In: MartÃnez de Pisón, F., Urraca, R., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems. HAIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10334. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59650-1_54
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