Design Considerations for Incorporating Flexible Workflow and Multi-Agent Interactions in Agent Societies

In this paper, we present our conception of a Flexible Agent Society (FAS), an extension of the Contractual Agent Society (CAS) idea. Essentially, a FAS is a distributed information system modeling an agent society, providing agents with the ability to collaborate in order to meet certain common goals. In a FAS, unlike the CAS, the agents themselves have control over the workflow processes and multi-agent conversations that they need to execute in order to meet their common goals.

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