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We describe several principles for designing Actor-Agent Communities (AAC) as collectives of autonomous problem solving entities (software agents and human experts) that self-organize and collaborate at solving complex problems.One of the main distinctive aspects of the AAC is their ability to integrate in a meaningful way the expertise and reasoning of humans with different information processing algorithms performed by software agents, without requiring a unique and complete description of the problem and solution spaces.
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Iacob, S.M., Nieuwenhuis, C.H.M., Wijngaards, N.J.E., Pavlin, G., van Veelen, J.B. (2009). Actor-Agent Communities: Design Approaches. In: Papadopoulos, G.A., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing III. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03214-1_25
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