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In this paper, we propose a framework for modelling agent organizations, Omni, that allows the balance of global organizational requirements with the autonomy of individual agents. It specifies global goals of the system independently from those of the specific agents that populate the system. Both the norms that regulate interaction between agents, as well as the contextual meaning of those interactions are important aspects when specifying the organizational structure. Omni integrates all this aspects in one framework. In order to make design of the multi-agent system manageable, we distinguish three levels of abstraction with increasing implementation detail. All dimensions of Omni have a formal logical semantics, which ensures consistency and possibility of verification of the different aspects of the system. Omni is therefore utmost suitable for the modelling of all types of MAS from open to closed environments.
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Dignum, V., Vázquez-Salceda, J., Dignum, F. (2005). OMNI: Introducing Social Structure, Norms and Ontologies into Agent Organizations. In: Bordini, R.H., Dastani, M., Dix, J., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3346. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32260-3_10
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