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Holonic Multi-Agent organisations are particular pyramidal organisations where agents of a layer (having the same coordinator) are able to communicate and to negotiate directly between them. In order to benefit from control allowed by the hierarchical structure of a holonic organisation and from dynamic roles, we propose a holonic multi-agent organisation inspired from working mechanisms of the complex human organisations. We have implemented this architecture by offering a role management capacity to a hierarchical multi-agent platform.
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Adam, E., Mandiau, R. (2007). Flexible Roles in a Holonic Multi-Agent System. In: Mařík, V., Vyatkin, V., Colombo, A.W. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4659. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_7
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