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In this paper we introduce the concept of Agreement Computing, motivate the central role that the concept of agreement plays in open software systems and discuss a number of research challenges that need to be addressed to make the agreement computing vision a reality.
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Research supported by the Agreement Technologies CONSOLIDER project under contract CSD2007-0022 and INGENIO 2010 and by the Agreement Technologies COST Action, IC0801.
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Sierra, C., Botti, V. & Ossowski, S. Agreement Computing. Künstl Intell 25, 57–61 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-010-0070-y
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