Towards a Conceptual Framework for Organizational Mechanisms in Multiagent Systems ?

In this paper we propose a preliminary approach to organize multiagent systems, based on building mechanisms that either i) endow agents with some “extra” information that could help them to select actions from the environment based on perceived observations on it; ii) or manipulate the environment in order to fulfil some global objectives. The paper also gives some desired properties that these mechanisms should hold. Finally we present a discussion about concepts used in other organizational approaches can be considered as one of this two types of