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In this paper we introduce organizations and roles in Shoham and Tennenholtz’ artificial social systems, using a normative system. We model how real agents determine the behavior of organizations by playing roles in the organization, and how the organization controls the behavior of agents playing a role in it. We consider the design of an organization in terms of roles and the assignment of agents to roles, and the evolution of organizations. We do not present a complete formalization of the computational problems, but we illustrate our approach by examples.
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Boella, G., van der Torre, L. (2006). Organizations in Artificial Social Systems. In: Boissier, O., et al. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems. AAMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3913. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11775331_14
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