Intention is choice with commitment
Artificial Intelligence
The action workflow approach to workflow management technology
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Artificial Intelligence
On social laws for artificial agent societies: off-line design
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Dynamic Programming
Implementation and evaluation of rational communicative behavior in coordinated defense
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Designing agent-oriented systems by analysing agent interactions
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Inter-Agent Cooperation Supported by XML and CORBA in Heterogeneous Information Systems
DNIS '00 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems
An Adaptive Agent Society for Environmental Scanning through the Internet
PRIMA 2001 Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, Intelligent Agents: Specification, Modeling, and Applications
Distributed agents for cost-effective monitoring of critical success factors
Decision Support Systems
Abstract Argumentation Scheme Frameworks
AIMSA '08 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications
Verification and analysis of organisational change
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
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We explore the view that coordinated behavior is explained by the social constraints that agents in organizations are subject to. In this framework, agents adopt those goals that are requested by their obligations, knowing that not fulfilling obligations induces a price to payor a loss of utility. Based on this idea we build a coordination system where we represent the organization, the roles played by agents, the obligations imposed among roles, the goals and the plans that agents may adopt. Once a goal adopted, a special brand of plans, called conversation plans, are available to the agents for effectively carrying out coordinated action. Conversation plans explicitly represent interactions by message exchange and their actions are dynamically reordered using the theory of Markov Decision Processes to ensure the optimization of various criteria. The framework is applied to model supply chains of distributed enterprises.