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We propose a Society Level view (SoL) of Multi Agent Systems. The purposes of a SoL approach are to give: Firstly, a basis for a principled design methodology of industry-scale multi agent systems based on, and extending, the CommonKADS methodology. Secondly, a structure-preserving mapping of the Society Level onto emergent technologies for distributed components and network-centric computations. This mapping will provide us with a semantic grounding of concepts at the Society Level. Thirdly, a framework for assessment of techniques and methodologies as well as of foundations of multi agent systems.
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Gustavsson, R.E. (1998). Multi agent systems as open societies — a design framework. In: Singh, M.P., Rao, A., Wooldridge, M.J. (eds) Intelligent Agents IV Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. ATAL 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1365. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0026769
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