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Adding Organisations and Roles to JADE with JadeOrgs

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Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability (ATOP 2005, ATOP 2008)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 25))

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The use of organisational structures enables one to clearly scope the interactions between parties that collaborate toward a common goal. The representation of an agent organisation as a first class entity is a frequently missing feature in platforms for multiagent systems, and it is normally left as a result of the emergent behaviour of interacting agents. This is also the case for JADE, one of the most commonly used multiagent system middlewares. This paper presents JadeOrgs, an extension to JADE that introduces Organisations and Roles as first level entities available at runtime.

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    Cristián Madrigal-Mora & Klaus Fischer

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  1. DFKI GmbH Saarbrücken, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Germany

    Klaus Fischer

  2. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität Clausthal, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Jörg P. Müller

  3. Oslo Software, Inc., 3723 Haven Avenue, CA 94025, Menlo Park, USA

    James Odell

  4. SINTEF ICT, Foskningsveien 1, 0314, Oslo, Norway

    Arne Jørgen Berre

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Madrigal-Mora, C., Fischer, K. (2009). Adding Organisations and Roles to JADE with JadeOrgs. In: Fischer, K., Müller, J.P., Odell, J., Berre, A.J. (eds) Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability. ATOP ATOP 2005 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01668-4_6

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