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What is Agent-Group-Role (AGR)

Chapter 3
Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models
A generic model of multi-agent organizations which does not impose any constraints on the architecture of agents. AGR conforms to the OCMAS principles.
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Towards an Integral Approach of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
Jacques Ferber (LIRMM – University of Montpellier II, France), Tiberiu Stratulat (LIRMM – University of Montpellier II, France), and John Tranier (LIRMM – University of Montpellier II, France)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch003
Abstract
In this chapter, we stress the importance of thinking a MAS in all its aspects (agents, environment, interactions, organizations, and institutions), using a more integral vision. We show that a genuine organizational approach has to take into account both the environment and the institutional part of MAS societies. Then, we propose the MASQ (Multi-Agent System based on Quadrants) meta-model, which constitutes an abstraction of the various aspects of an OCMAS (Organization Centered Multi-Agent Systems), extending AGR (Agent/Group/Role). MASQ is based on a four-quadrant framework, where the analysis and design of a system is performed along two axes: an interior/exterior dimension and an individual/collective dimension. We give a conceptual definition of this approach and we will show that it is possible to apply it to practical models.
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