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International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems

COIN 2011: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent System VII pp 38–57Cite as

Adaptive Coordination in Distributed and Dynamic Agent Organizations

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We elaborate the rationale and design of OJAzzIC (Organizations Joining Adaptively with Improvised Coordination), a model for agents in (Jazzy) Organizations that need to engage in dynamic adaptation to respond to a dynamic situation. OJAzzIC provides an adaptive data structure and framework for creation of multiple instances of organizations within a distributed system, with knowledge sharing across organizational boundaries achieved through overlapping instances.

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  1. School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering, The University of Ballarat, P.O. Box 663, Ballarat, VIC, 3353, Australia

    Kathleen Keogh

  2. Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia

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Keogh, K., Sonenberg, L. (2012). Adaptive Coordination in Distributed and Dynamic Agent Organizations. In: Cranefield, S., van Riemsdijk, M.B., Vázquez-Salceda, J., Noriega, P. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent System VII. COIN 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35545-5_3

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