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In this paper we present an approach to design an Organized Multiagent Systems (OMAS) for teamwork. We use a general formal model for OMAS that employs the notion of organizational mechanisms. The purpose of such mechanisms is influencing the behaviour of the agents towards more effectiveness with regard to some objectives. To achieve our goal we use Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) as a framework to design the organizational mechanisms. In order to illustrate our approach we use the medical emergencies domain where ambulances have to be selected in order to assist and transport patients to the hospitals.
The present work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, grants TIN2006-14630-C03-02 (FPI grants program) and CSD2007-00022 (CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010).
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Fagundes, M., Centeno, R., Billhardt, H., Ossowski, S. (2009). Designing Organized Multiagent Systems through MDPs. In: Braubach, L., van der Hoek, W., Petta, P., Pokahr, A. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04143-3_17
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