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Multi-agent systems are increasingly being considered a viable technological basis for implementing complex, open systems such as electronic marketplaces, virtual enterprises, military coalition support systems, etc. The design of open systems in such domains poses a number of difficult challenges, including the need to cope with unreliable computational and network infrastructures, the need to address incompatible assumptions and limited trust among independently developed agents and the necessity of detecting and responding to systemic failures.
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Conte, R., Dellarocas, C. (2001). Introduction. In: Conte, R., Dellarocas, C. (eds) Social Order in Multiagent Systems. Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1555-5_1
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