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Towards a Hybrid MAS Organizational Model: Combining the ACMAS and OCMAS Viewpoints

Towards a Hybrid MAS Organizational Model: Combining the ACMAS and OCMAS Viewpoints

Hosny A. Abbas, Samir Shaheen
Copyright: © 2017 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 33
ISSN: 1947-9344|EISSN: 1947-9352|EISBN13: 9781522513285|DOI: 10.4018/IJOCI.2017100102
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Abbas, Hosny A., and Samir Shaheen. "Towards a Hybrid MAS Organizational Model: Combining the ACMAS and OCMAS Viewpoints." IJOCI vol.7, no.4 2017: pp.18-50. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOCI.2017100102

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Abbas, H. A. & Shaheen, S. (2017). Towards a Hybrid MAS Organizational Model: Combining the ACMAS and OCMAS Viewpoints. International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI), 7(4), 18-50. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOCI.2017100102

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Abbas, Hosny A., and Samir Shaheen. "Towards a Hybrid MAS Organizational Model: Combining the ACMAS and OCMAS Viewpoints," International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) 7, no.4: 18-50. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJOCI.2017100102

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Abstract

The organizational aspects are currently getting a great attention within the multi-agent systems (MAS) community. The motivation towards this trend is finding a way to handle the increasing complexity and distribution of modern agent-based applications using higher order abstractions such as agent organizations. It is a transition from concerning the micro level (individual agents) to concerning the macro level (the whole system) to handle complexity. A large number of MAS organizational models can be found in MAS literature. Some of them adopt the ACMAS (Agent-Centered MAS) viewpoint and others adopt the OCMAS (Organizational-Centered MAS) viewpoint. Each of the ACMAS and OCMAS viewpoints has its advantages and disadvantages; therefore, combining them into a hybrid model is expected to give us the chance to take benefit of their advantages and avoid their disadvantages. This chapter presents our recent work towards the conceptual design of a hybrid MAS organizational model that combines both of the ACMAS and OCMAS viewpoints.

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