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Social Coordination Frameworks for Social Technical Systems

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This chapter presents the JaCaMo framework for Social Coordination. JaCaMo is a development and execution platform that provides programming constructs that match the abstractions used at the levels of a multi-agent system for expressing social coordination. More precisely, JaCaMo defines a uniform and consistent programming model seamlessly integrating concepts from programming dimensions developed within separate communities in the Multi-Agent research domain: 1) agents, 2) environment, 3) interaction languages and protocols, and 4) multi-agent organisations and norms. The applications and example presented in this chapter show the added value of this seamless integration of each dimension for the development of complex and distributed applications.

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Notes

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    Some of these examples are listed and made available at http://jacamo.sourceforge.net/.

  2. 2.

    The RFT implementation is included in the JaCaModistribution available at http://jacamo.sf.net.

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  1. Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR CNRS 5516, Institut Henri Fayol, Mines Saint-Etienne, 158 cours Fauriel, F-42023, Saint-Étienne, France

    Olivier Boissier

  2. DAS-UFSC, Federal University of Santa Catarina, CP 476, 88040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

    Jomi F. Hübner

  3. DEIS, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Via Venezia 52, 47521, Cesena, (FC), Italy

    Alessandro Ricci

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Boissier, O., Hübner, J.F., Ricci, A. (2016). The JaCaMo Framework. In: Aldewereld, H., Boissier, O., Dignum, V., Noriega, P., Padget, J. (eds) Social Coordination Frameworks for Social Technical Systems. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33570-4_7

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