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GORMAS: An Organizational-Oriented Methodological Guideline for Open MAS

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering X (AOSE 2009)

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An Organizational-Oriented Methodological Guideline for designing Virtual Organizations, focused on Service-Oriented Open Multi-Agent Systems, is presented in this paper. This guideline covers the requirement analysis, the structure design and the organization-dynamics design steps, in which software designers mainly specify the services that the system under study is requested to offer, the internal structure of this system and the norms that control its behavior, taking into account the specific features of open multi-agent systems.

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    Estefanía Argente, Vicent Botti & Vicente Julian

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Argente, E., Botti, V., Julian, V. (2011). GORMAS: An Organizational-Oriented Methodological Guideline for Open MAS. In: Gleizes, MP., Gomez-Sanz, J.J. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering X. AOSE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19208-1_3

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