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ESAW
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
From Multi-Agent to Multi-Organization Systems: Utilizing Middleware Approaches
Modern software systems share with social organizations the attributes of being large-scale, distributed, and heterogeneous systems of systems. The organizational metaphor for soft...
Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus, Daniel Moldt, Michael ...
OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An Hybrid Intermediation Architectural Approach for Integrating Cross-Organizational Services
Nowadays, workflow research has shifted from fundamentals of workflow modelling and enactment towards improvement of the workflow modelling lifecycle and integration of workflow en...
Giannis Verginadis, Panagiotis Gouvas, Gregoris Me...
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Normative Multi-Agent Organizations: Modeling, Support and Control, Draft Version
Abstract. In the last years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in multi-agent systems’ research. Recent applications of MAS enforce the need o...
Olivier Boissier, Benjamin Gâteau
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Multi-Agent Approach for Peer-to-Peer Based Information Retrieval System
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
AAAI
2008
14 years 4 days ago
The Impact of Vertical Specialization on Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems
Hierarchies are one of the most common organizational structures observed in multi-agent systems. In this paper we study vertical specialization as a reason for hierarchical struc...
Steven Okamoto, Paul Scerri, Katia P. Sycara