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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

20. Adaptive Agent Organisations

Authors : Estefanía Argente, Holger Billhardt, Carlos E. Cuesta, Sergio Esparcia, Jana Görmer, Ramón Hermoso, Kristi Kirikal, Marin Lujak, José-Santiago Pérez-Sotelo, Kuldar Taveter

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Abstract

The capability of autonomous adaptation to changing conditions is a feature that requires the ability of agents to alter their own configuration and even their own composition. Adaptive agent organisation should consider agent self-adaptation and reorganisation processes. In this chapter a review of methods for designing and/or implementing adaptive agent organisations is given.

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Metadata
Title
Adaptive Agent Organisations
Authors
Estefanía Argente
Holger Billhardt
Carlos E. Cuesta
Sergio Esparcia
Jana Görmer
Ramón Hermoso
Kristi Kirikal
Marin Lujak
José-Santiago Pérez-Sotelo
Kuldar Taveter
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Agreement Technologies

Print ISBN: 978-94-007-5582-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-5583-3

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_20

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