Organizational Principles for Multi-Agent Architectures

The general question addressed in this book "How can human organizational principles be used for multi-agent architectures?" is answered by an exploration of the possibilities to design multi-agent systems as artificial organizations.

Key topics of this book:

Framework for multi-agent system design, based on human organizational notions and principles for distributed intelligent systems design

"Coordination mechanisms" in the form of "Problem Solving Methods"

Multi-agent architecture capable of (semi)automatic reuse of Problem Solving Methods (PSMs)

"ontology-based communication"