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Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules

Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules

Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781605662565|ISBN10: 1605662569|EISBN13: 9781605662572
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch013
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van der Vecht, Bob, et al. "Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules." Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, edited by Virginia Dignum, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 314-333. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch013

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van der Vecht, B., Dignum, F., & Meyer, J. C. (2009). Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules. In V. Dignum (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models (pp. 314-333). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch013

Chicago

van der Vecht, Bob, Frank Dignum, and John-Jules Ch. Meyer. "Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules." In Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, edited by Virginia Dignum, 314-333. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch013

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Abstract

This chapter discusses how autonomous agents can adopt organizational rules into their reasoning process. Agents in an organization need to coordinate their actions in order to reach the organizational goals. Organizational models specify the desired behaviour in terms of roles, relations, norms, and interactions. We have developed a method to translate norms into event-processing rules of the agents. We propose a modular reasoning model that includes the organizational rules explicitly. Since the agents are autonomous, they will have their own reasoning rules next to the organizational rules. The modular approach allows for meta-reasoning about these rules. We show that this stimulates bottom-up dynamics in the organization.

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