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A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model

A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model

Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro
ISBN13: 9781605662565|ISBN10: 1605662569|EISBN13: 9781605662572
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch017
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da Rocha Costa, Antônio Carlos, and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. "A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model." Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, edited by Virginia Dignum, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 419-445. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch017

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da Rocha Costa, A. C. & Dimuro, G. P. (2009). A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model. In V. Dignum (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models (pp. 419-445). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch017

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da Rocha Costa, Antônio Carlos, and Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro. "A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model." In Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, edited by Virginia Dignum, 419-445. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch017

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Abstract

This chapter presents the Population-Organization model, a formal tool for studying the organization of open multi-agent systems and its functional and structural dynamics. The model is minimal in two senses: it comprises a minimal set of extensional concepts able of adequately accounting for the notion of dynamic organization; and, it is a core organization model upon which a certain kind of dynamical rules can be defined, to account for the action of intensional organizational elements like prestige, power, morality, and so forth. The chapter gives a detailed presentation of the core model, in a version adapted for describing organizations where interactions have a periodic character. We also illustrate how the model supports intensional organizational processes, by introducing a sample set of moral rules for agents playing roles in informal organizations.

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