Adaptive Agent Organisations

  • 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.

Keywords

Cell Phone Task Assignment Goal Model Virtual Organisation Communication Graph 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Estefanía Argente
    • 1
  • Holger Billhardt
    • 2
  • Carlos E. Cuesta
    • 3
  • Sergio Esparcia
    • 1
  • Jana Görmer
    • 4
  • Ramón Hermoso
    • 2
  • Kristi Kirikal
    • 5
  • Marin Lujak
    • 2
  • José-Santiago Pérez-Sotelo
    • 2
  • Kuldar Taveter
    • 5
  1. 1.Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y ComputaciónUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaValenciaSpain
  2. 2.CETINIAUniversity Rey Juan CarlosMadridSpain
  3. 3.ETSIIUniversity Rey Juan CarlosMadridSpain
  4. 4.Department of InformaticsTU ClausthalClausthalGermany
  5. 5.Tallinn University of TechnologyTallinnEstonia

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