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Adaptive Agent Organisations

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The capability of autonomous adaptation to changing conditions is a feature that requires the ability of agents to alter their own configuration and even their own composition. Adaptive agent organisation should consider agent self-adaptation and reorganisation processes. In this chapter a review of methods for designing and/or implementing adaptive agent organisations is given.

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  1. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Estefanía Argente & Sergio Esparcia

  2. CETINIA, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

    Holger Billhardt, Ramón Hermoso, Marin Lujak & José-Santiago Pérez-Sotelo

  3. ETSII, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos E. Cuesta

  4. Department of Informatics, TU Clausthal, Clausthal, Germany

    Jana Görmer

  5. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Kristi Kirikal & Kuldar Taveter

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Argente, E. et al. (2013). Adaptive Agent Organisations. In: Ossowski, S. (eds) Agreement Technologies. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_20

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