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PAAMS 2014: Highlights of Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection pp 344–357Cite as

An Architecture Proposal for Human-Agent Societies

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Abstract

Agreement technologies have settled the basis for creating systems that operate on the basis of agreements in societies of independent, autonomous computational entities (agents). However, nowadays more and more systems of such kind rely on a seamless interaction of software agents with humans. Humans work in partnership (directly or indirectly) or closely related with agents that are able to act autonomously and intelligently. Specifically, humans and agents have the ability to establish a series of relationships/collaborative interactions with each other, forming what might be called human-agent teams to meet their individual or collective goals within an organisation or social structure. Systems in which people and agents operate on a large scale offer an enormous potential but also require the consideration of additional issues. In this paper we analyse the open issues that may be addressed for researches in order to develop open human-agent systems. We present a real-world case study and an abstract architecture proposal for such systems.

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  1. CETINIA, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

    Holger Billhardt & Alberto Fernández

  2. DSIC, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julián

  3. BISITE, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado

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  1. Departamento Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

  2. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Technical Univesity of Madrid, Bloque 2, Despacho 2101, Campus Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte,, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  3. AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH), 30-059, Krakow, Poland

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  4. Poznan University of Technology, ul.Strzelecka 11, 60-965, Poznań, Poland

    Pawel Pawlewski

  5. Departamento de Informática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida de la Universidad Carlos III, 22, Colmenarejo, Madrid, Spain

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  6. IRIT, University of Toulouse, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse cedex 9, France

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  7. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

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  8. Universität Duisburg-Essen, Schützenbahn 70 (Hochhaus), 45117, Essen, Germany

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  9. Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG), Est. Paço do Lumiar 22, 1649-038, Lisbon, Portugal

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Billhardt, H., Julián, V., Corchado, J.M., Fernández, A. (2014). An Architecture Proposal for Human-Agent Societies. In: Corchado, J.M., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 430. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07767-3_31

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