TY - GEN
T1 - Programming organization-aware agents a research agenda
AU - Van Riemsdijk, M. Birna
AU - Hindriks, Koen
AU - Jonker, Catholijn
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - Organizational notions such as roles, norms (e.g., obligations and permissions), and services are increasingly viewed as natural concepts to manage the complexity of software development. In particular in the context of multi-agent systems, agents are expected to be organization-aware, i.e., to understand and reason about the structure, work processes, and norms of the agent organization in which they operate. In this paper, we analyze which kinds of reasoning an agent should be able to do to function in an organization. We categorize these kinds of reasoning with respect to several dimensions, and distinguish three general approaches on how these might be integrated in existing agent programming languages. Through this, we provide a research agenda on what needs to be addressed when developing techniques for programming organization-aware agents.
AB - Organizational notions such as roles, norms (e.g., obligations and permissions), and services are increasingly viewed as natural concepts to manage the complexity of software development. In particular in the context of multi-agent systems, agents are expected to be organization-aware, i.e., to understand and reason about the structure, work processes, and norms of the agent organization in which they operate. In this paper, we analyze which kinds of reasoning an agent should be able to do to function in an organization. We categorize these kinds of reasoning with respect to several dimensions, and distinguish three general approaches on how these might be integrated in existing agent programming languages. Through this, we provide a research agenda on what needs to be addressed when developing techniques for programming organization-aware agents.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/78650729599
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5_9
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650729599
SN - 3642102026
SN - 9783642102028
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 98
EP - 112
BT - Engineering Societies in the Agents World X - 10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X, ESAW 2009
Y2 - 18 November 2009 through 20 November 2009
ER -