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There exists a need in industrial and business applications to intelligently integrate data, information and knowledge from a diverse range of sources, particularly during product design, or policy formation. Optimizing decision making requires the expertise of many agents, both computational and human, to be combined and coordinated.
The concept of an ’organization’ has emerged as central to the structuring of activities of both decentralized human conglomerates and collections of intelligent problem solvers in the multi-agent systems’ area. Of late, the idea of integrating these fields has emerged and within this effort one of the most important organizational problems today is that of coordination between and across organizational units. To this purpose, the paper advocates the concept of organizational multi-agent systems.
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Unland, R., Kirn, S., Wanka, U., O’Hare, G.M.P., Abbas, S. (1996). Organizational Multi-Agent Systems: A Process Driven Approach. In: König, W., Kurbel, K., Mertens, P., Pressmar, D. (eds) Distributed Information Systems in Business. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80216-4_7
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