Formal languages
Nonsequential processes
Computational organization theory
Multiagent systems
On agent-based software engineering
Artificial Intelligence
A formal model of responsibilities in agent-based teams
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Naming the Unnamable: Socionics or the Sociological Turn of/to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Multi-Agent-Systems Based on Coloured Petri Nets
ICATPN '97 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
Modelling the Structure and Behaviour of Petri Net Agents
ICATPN '01 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
Agent Cooperation: A Petri Net Based Model
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Formal Aspects for Semantic Service Modeling Based on High-Level Petri Nets
CIMCA '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce Vol-1 (CIMCA-IAWTIC'06) - Volume 01
A proposal for structuring Petri net-based agent interaction protocols
ICATPN'03 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Applications and theory of Petri nets
Co-ordination in artificial agent societies: social structures and its implications for autonomous problem-solving agents
OMNI: introducing social structure, norms and ontologies into agent organizations
ProMAS'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Defining Multi-Party Compromises using Unfoldings of Workflow Nets
Fundamenta Informaticae - Concurrency, Specification and Programming
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Agent oriented software engineering is seen as the approach taking object oriented approaches one step ahead. The design of agent systems is based on three fundamental perspectives: the functional, the team-interactional and the organisational perspective. The organisational perspective becomes a central design issue if the number of agents is large or the environment is unstable. While the functional perspective is well founded in the planning theory of artificial intelligence and the interactional perspective is rooted in the theory of speech-acts and formal ontologies, the organisational perspective is still an active research area with several open questions. In this paper we define a formal organisation model for agent systems based on Petri nets and show how agent oriented software engineering can benefit from this model.