On the Road to an Abstract Architecture for Open Virtual Organizations

The paper presents an abstract architecture specifically addressed for the design of open multi-agent systems (MAS) and virtual organizations. The proposal takes into account all the components to cover the characteristics and needs for systems of this kind. This architecture has been called THOMAS (MeTH ods, Techniques and Tools for O pen M ulti-A gent S ystems) and consists of a set of modular services.

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