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The paper provides a survey comprising meaningful organisational approaches to Multi-Agent-Systems (MAS) that exist in the computational theory field. The organisational concepts are collected and represented as a metamodel of some commonly agreed organisational ontology of human systems. Next, this metamodel - a proposal for the extension of the Agent-Object-Relationship (AOR) simulation language with organisational constructs - will be analysed and improved by taking into consideration the organisational approaches originating from the fields of social sciences. Our account is exemplified by a case study where we model an academic environment with the help of the organisation-oriented concepts defined by the AOR simulation language.
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Nicolae, O., Wagner, G. (2011). Modeling and Simulating Organisations. In: Barjis, J., Eldabi, T., Gupta, A. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24175-8_4
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