Computational organization theory
Multiagent systems
Coordination and control in computational ecosystems: a vision of the future
Coordination of Internet agents
A formal model of open agent societies
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
Reflections on the Nature of Multi-Agent Coordination and Its Implications for an Agent Architecture
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Emergent Societies of Information Agents
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
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
Organisational Abstractions for the Analysis and Design of Multi-agent Systems
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
A study on the termination of negotiation dialogues
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Preferring and Updating in Abductive Multi-agent Systems
ESAW '01 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World II
Engineering Infrastructures for Mobile Organizations
ESAW '01 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World II
A Logical Framework for Modelling eMAS
PADL '03 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages
Protocol Moderators as Active Middle-Agents in Multi-Agent Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Environment-Supported Roles to Develop Complex Systems
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Towards Reputation Enhanced Electronic Negotiations for Service Oriented Computing
Trust in Agent Societies
Model-Driven Integration of Organizational Models
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX
Competence checking for the global e-service society using games
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
Declarative technologies for open agent systems and beyond
KES-AMSTA'10 Proceedings of the 4th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications, Part I
Role monitoring in open agent societies
KES-AMSTA'10 Proceedings of the 4th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications, Part I
A model-based architecture for organizational interoperability in open multiagent systems
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Designing agent systems: state of the practice
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
A new framework for knowledge revision of abductive agents through their interaction
CLIMA IV'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Enacting and deacting roles in agent programming
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Welfare engineering in practice: on the variety of multiagent resource allocation problems
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Security protocols verification in abductive logic programming: a case study
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Specification and verification of agent interaction using abductive reasoning
CLIMA'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Architecture-centric support for adaptive service collaborations
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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We investigate the concept of artificial societies and identify a number of separate classes of such societies. These are compared in terms of openness, flexibility, stability, and trustfulness. The two most obvious types of artificial societies are the open societies, where there are no restrictions for joining the society, and the closed societies, where it is impossible for an "external agent" to join the society. We argue that whereas open societies supports openness and flexibility, closed societies support stability and trustfulness. In many situations, however, there is a need for societies that support all these aspects, e.g., in systems characterized as information ecosystems. We therefore suggest two classes of societies that better balance the trade-off between these aspects. The first class is the semi-open societies, where any agent can join the society given that it follows some well-specified restrictions (or, at least, promises to do so), and second is the semi-closed societies, where anyone may have an agent but where the agents are of a predefined type.