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On the Relevance of Organizational Structures for a Technology of Agreement

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 Workshops (OTM 2008)

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This paper provides a brief overview of the field of coordination in multi-agent systems, and outlines its relation to current efforts working towards a paradigm for smart, next-generation distributed systems, where coordination is based on the concept of agreement between computational entities. To illustrate the types of mechanisms that we envision to be part of a “technology of agreement”, we provide two examples of how techniques from the field of organisations can be used to foster coordination and agreement in open multi-agent systems.

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    Holger Billhardt, Roberto Centeno, Alberto Fernández, Ramón Hermoso, Rubén Ortiz, Sascha Ossowski & Matteo Vasirani

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Billhardt, H. et al. (2008). On the Relevance of Organizational Structures for a Technology of Agreement. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 Workshops. OTM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88875-8_33

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