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Recent technological advances in open systems have imposed new needs on multi-agent systems. Nowadays, open systems require open autonomous scenarios in which heterogeneous entities (agents or services) interact to fulfill the system goals. This impose the need for open architectures and computational models for large-scale open multi-agent systems based on service-oriented approaches. THOMAS is a new architecture specifically addressed for the design of virtual organizations for open systems. In this paper we present a case study that exemplifies the usage of THOMAS for implementing a management system of a travel agency.
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Julian, V., Rebollo, M., Argente, E., Botti, V., Carrascosa, C., Giret, A. (2009). Using THOMAS for Service Oriented Open MAS. In: Kowalczyk, R., Vo, Q.B., Maamar, Z., Huhns, M. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering. SOCASE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5907. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10739-9_5
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