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Socially conscious decision-making
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Customer coalitions in the electronic marketplace
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Algorithm for optimal winner determination in combinatorial auctions
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Congregating and market formation
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Flying Together: Modelling Air Mission Teams
Applied Intelligence
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Organization Self-Design of Distributed Production Systems
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An Introduction to Congregating in Multiagent Systems
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Integrative Negotiation In Complex Organizational Agent Systems
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Degree of Local Cooperation and Its Implication on Global Utility
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Modelling Coalition Formation over Time for Iterative Coalition Games
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Normative Agent Reasoning in Dynamic Societies
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A Case Study of Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network
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Separating Domain and Coordination in Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation
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Organization-Based Cooperative Coalition Formation
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Sensor network calculus – a framework for worst case analysis
DCOSS'05 Proceedings of the First IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Virtual enterprise normative framework within electronic institutions
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IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
A framework for formal modeling and analysis of organizations
Applied Intelligence
A Formal Model of Multi-Agent Organisations
Fundamenta Informaticae - Special Issue on Concurrency Specification and Programming (CS&P)
A flexible and reasonable mechanism for self-interested agent team forming
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Using organization knowledge to improve routing performance in wireless multi-agent networks
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Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Process-oriented organisation modelling and analysis
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Many researchers have demonstrated that the organizational design employed by an agent system can have a significant, quantitative effect on its performance characteristics. A range of organizational strategies have emerged from this line of research, each with different strengths and weaknesses. In this article we present a survey of the major organizational paradigms used in multi-agent systems. These include hierarchies, holarchies, coalitions, teams, congregations, societies, federations, markets, and matrix organizations. We will provide a description of each, discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and provide examples of how they may be instantiated and maintained. This summary will facilitate the comparative evaluation of organizational styles, allowing designers to first recognize the spectrum of possibilities, and then guiding the selection of an appropriate organizational design for a particular domain and environment.