Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Coordination mechanisms: towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on the design of cooperative systems
The BOID architecture: conflicts between beliefs, obligations, intentions and desires
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
SBIA '02 Proceedings of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Communications of the ACM - Information cities
AMELI: An Agent-Based Middleware for Electronic Institutions
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Coordination Artifacts: Environment-Based Coordination for Intelligent Agents
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Agens Faber: Toward a Theory of Artefacts for MAS
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Activity theory as a framework for MAS coordination
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Organization oriented programming: from closed to open organizations
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
The A&A programming model and technology for developing agent environments in MAS
ProMAS'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
OMNI: introducing social structure, norms and ontologies into agent organizations
ProMAS'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
S-Moise+: a middleware for developing organised multi-agent systems
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
Instrumenting Multi-agent Organisations with Artifacts to Support Reputation Processes
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
Requesting agent participation in electronic institutions
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
A norm-based organization management system
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Developing a knowledge management multi-agent system using JaCaMo
ProMAS'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
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The social and organisational aspects of agency have become nowadays a major focus of interest in the MAS community, and a good amount of theoretical work is available, in terms of formal models and theories. However, the conception and engineering of proper organisational infrastructures embodying such models and theories is still an open issue, in particular when open MAS are considered. Accordingly, in this paper we discuss a model for an organisational infrastructure called ORA4MAS that aims at addressing these issues. By being based on the A&A (Agents and Artifacts) meta-model, the key and novel aspect introduced with ORA4MAS is that organisations and the organisation infrastructure itself are conceived in terms of agents and artifacts, as first-class abstractions giving body to the MAS from design to runtime.