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Dynamic Composition of Electronic Institutions for Teamwork

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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III (COIN 2007)

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We present a framework for teamwork based on a requirement’s driven dynamic composition approach to electronic institutions, which builds on an existing formalism for agent-mediated electronic institutions. In the presented framework, agent teams are designed and deployed on-the-fly so as to met the requirements of the problem at hand. The result is a new form of electronic institution that is created dynamically out of existing components to provide ad-hoc communication and coordination support for teamwork. This approach combines a requirements driven configuration of a team in terms of the structure, competencies and knowledge required (team design) to fulfill problem requirements; and a dynamic negotiation of the communication and coordination components to use for every team role (team formation).

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen,  

    Mario Gómez

  2. Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish National Research Council,  

    Enric Plaza

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Gómez, M., Plaza, E. (2008). Dynamic Composition of Electronic Institutions for Teamwork. In: Sichman, J.S., Padget, J., Ossowski, S., Noriega, P. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III. COIN 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4870. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79003-7_12

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