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International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems

CEEMAS 2003: Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III pp 111–121Cite as

From Social Agents to Multi-agent Systems: Preliminary Report

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This paper presents a formal analysis of social interaction within a multi-agent system. The concept of a social agent is introduced as the elemental building block of multi-agent systems. Social agents can be individual (BDI) agents or aggregations of agents (groups). The structure of a multi-agent system and that of social agents is formally characterised in terms of roles and the relationships between them. Stability and regulation of activity in a multi-agent system and within social agents can be accounted for by means of a complex web of roles, commitments, obligations and rights.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ, Colchester, UK

    Maria Fasli

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, 16627, Praha 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík  & Michal Pěchouček  & 

  2. Siemens AG, CT, IC 6, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81730, München, Germany

    Jörg Müller

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Fasli, M. (2003). From Social Agents to Multi-agent Systems: Preliminary Report. In: Mařík, V., Pěchouček, M., Müller, J. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III. CEEMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45023-8_12

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