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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

19. Organisational Reasoning Agents

Authors : Olivier Boissier, M. Birna van Riemsdijk

Published in: Agreement Technologies

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

From an agent architecture perspective and analysing the reasoning capabilities of agents with respect to organisations, different cases may be considered: agents may or may not have an explicit representation of the organisation, and they may or may not be able to reason about it. Organisational reasoning agents have the capability to represent the organisation and are able about reason on it. In this chapter, we will discuss the main features of this kind of agents and which are the fundamental mechanisms for reasoning about organisations. We will also describe some approaches proposed in the literature related to how agents can take decisions on their participation in an organisation.

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Metadata
Title
Organisational Reasoning Agents
Authors
Olivier Boissier
M. Birna van Riemsdijk
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_19

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