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Organization Oriented Programming: From Closed to Open Organizations

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII (ESAW 2006)

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In the last years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in multi-agent systems’ research. Recent applications of MAS enforce the need of using such aspects in order to ensure some social order within these systems. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive views of the diverse concepts, models and approaches related to agents’ organizations. Moreover, most designers have doubts about how to put these concepts in practice, i.e., how to program them. In this paper we focus on and discuss about the literature on formal, top-down and pre-existent organizations by stressing the different aspects that may be considered to program them. Finally, we present some challenges for future research considering particularly the openness feature of those agents’ organizations.

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  1. SMA/G2I/ENSM.SE, 158 Cours Fauriel, 42023 Saint-Etienne Cedex, France

    Olivier Boissier

  2. GIA/DSC/FURB, Braz Wanka, 238, 89035-160, Blumenau, Brazil

    Jomi Fred Hübner

  3. LTI/EP/USP, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 158, trav. 3, 05508-900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Jaime Simão Sichman

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Boissier, O., Hübner, J.F., Sichman, J.S. (2007). Organization Oriented Programming: From Closed to Open Organizations. In: O’Hare, G.M.P., Ricci, A., O’Grady, M.J., Dikenelli, O. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII. ESAW 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75524-1_5

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