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This chapter describes an environment to support the rapid assembly of agent-oriented business collaborations. Our environment allows: (i) setting up a collaboration environment as a virtual organization; (ii) reaching agreements within the collaboration environment to form short-term business collaborations; (iii) enacting business collaborations; and (iv) tracking the performance of agents within business collaborations to build their trust and reputation within the collaboration environment.
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This work was partially funded by Agreement Technologies (CONSOLIDER CSD2007-0022), EVE (TIN2009-14702-C02), the Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, the EU FEDER funds, the Generalitat de Catalunya (grant 2009-SGR-1434) and the proyecto intramural CSIC 201050I008.
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Penya-Alba, T. et al. (2013). An Environment to Build and Track Agent-Based Business Collaborations. In: Ossowski, S. (eds) Agreement Technologies. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_36
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