An Assistance Infrastructure for open MAS

Organisations are an eective mechanism to dene the coordination model that structure agent interactions in Open MAS. Execution infrastructures mediate agents interactions while enforcing the rules imposed by the organisation. Although infrastructures usually provide open specications to agents, understanding this specication and participating in the organisation could result a dicult task to agents, specially when the system is hybrid (i.e participants can be both human and software agents) and its specication becomes more and more complex. In this paper, we formalize an Assistance Infrastructure for Hybrid open MAS that helps agents to pursue their particular goals and, when they are aligned with global goals, lead to a better system’s global performance. With this aim, we propose four advanced services { oered by the assistance infrastructure in

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