Towards Organizational Interoperability Through the Environment

Although Organization-Centered MAS OC-MAS are suitable for developing open systems for distributed and heterogeneous environments, they are still dependent on their underlying Organizational Models and associate Organizational Middleware or infrastructure to execute properly. This makes interoperability an issue worthy of consideration since agents must be able to run on different organizational infrastructures in order to interact with several OC-MAS. Such issue is closely related to the distribution of responsibilities over environment technologies and subsystems, which is still under investigation among the researchers on environments for MAS. In this paper we presented a step towards providing an environment where the knowledge of different organizational infrastructures could be available by the definition of organizational artifacts. Such artifacts are distributed throughout the environment in order to provide interoperability among agents that have different underlying organizational models, following the multiagent programming approach from the JaCaMo platform.

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