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Knowledge-Based Systems
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In this paper, we propose a general formal framework for organising multiagent systems whose participants are rational agents. This model is based on the idea of organisational mechanisms. These are mechanisms introduced in a multiagent system with the aim of influencing the behaviour of the agents towards more effectiveness with regard to some objectives. We define two kinds of organisational mechanisms: i) informative mechanisms which provide additional information to agents, that may persuade agents to behave in a certain way, and ii) regulative mechanisms which produce changes in the environment of the agents, that may impose certain behaviours. We also define some properties of these mechanisms which will make it possible to prove certain characteristics of organised multiagent systems. Finally, we present a discussion about how the social concepts proposed by different organisational paradigms can be considered as either informative or regulative organisational mechanisms.