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"
Chris van Aart
Agent technology Information systems Multi-agents architecture intelligence intelligent systems multi-agent system ontology organization problem solving