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Recent research on social and organisational aspects of multi-agent systems has led to practical organisational models and the idea of organisation-oriented programming. These organisational models help agents to achieve shared (global) goals of the multi-agent system. Having an organisational model is an important advance, but this model needs to be integrated to an environment infrastructure and agent-oriented programming platforms. JaCaMo is the first fully operational programming platform that integrates three levels of multi-agent abstractions: an agent programming language, an organisational model, and an environment infrastructure. For better showcasing the advantages of a fully-fledged multi-agent platform, this paper presents a concrete agent-based architecture to proactively supply knowledge to knowledge-intensive workflows which has been designed using JaCaMo.
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Toledo, C.M., Bordini, R.H., Chiotti, O., Galli, M.R. (2012). Developing a Knowledge Management Multi-Agent System Using JaCaMo . In: Dennis, L., Boissier, O., Bordini, R.H. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7217. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31915-0_3
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