Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Distributed Artificial Intelligence
A dynamic hierarchy of intelligent agents for network management
IATA '98 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Intelligent agents for telecommunication applications
SODA: societies and infrastructures in the analysis and design of agent-based systems
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
Organizational abstractions for the analysis and design of multi-agent system
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
Agent-oriented software engineering for Internet agents
Coordination of Internet agents
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
An Electronic Market Architecture for the Formation of Virtual Enterprises
PRO-VE '99 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3 / PRODNET Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Networking Industrial Enterprises
Design of Collaborative Information Agents
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
Agent Societies: Towards Frameworks-Based Design
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
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
Co-ordination in artificial agent societies: social structures and its implications for autonomous problem-solving agents
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Agent-Based Inter-Organizational Workflow Management System
HoloMAS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Environment-Supported Roles to Develop Complex Systems
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Instrumenting Multi-agent Organisations with Artifacts to Support Reputation Processes
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
The MACODO organization model for context-driven dynamic agent organizations
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
An approach to reduce the gap between conceptual and execution models in agent-directed simulations
SpringSim '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference
An approach for virtual organisations' dissolution
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
OperettA: organization-oriented development environment
LADS'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Languages, methodologies, and development tools for 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
Virtual enterprise normative framework within electronic institutions
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
An overview of agents in knowledge management
INAP'05 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management
Enriching a MAS environment with institutional services
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for 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
Towards a design process for modeling MAS organizations
EUMAS'11 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Multi-Agent Systems
MAS-based Agent Societies by Means of Scout Movement
International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems
Research directions in agent communication
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Special section on agent communication, trust in multiagent systems, intelligent tutoring and coaching systems
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Organisations can be defined as a set of entities regulated by mechanisms of social order and created by more or less autonomous actors to achieve common goals. Multi-agent systems are a natural choice to design organisational systems due to the proactive and autonomous behaviour of agents. However, in business environments it is necessary to consider the behaviour of the global system and the collective aspects of the domain. In this paper, we argue that multi-agent systems should be designed around organisational co-ordination frameworks that reflect the coordination structures of the particular organisation. As in human societies, we argue that norms and institutions are a way for agent societies to cope with the challenge of social order. Through institutions, conventions and interaction patterns for the co-ordination of agents can be specified, monitored and managed.