Agent organisations

theoretic level and in closed systems (workbenches, simulators). Today, due to the evolution from the Internet related technologies and the dawn of languages like JAV, we are dealing with a growing number of developing tools (libraries, services) that allow us to deploy working multi-agent systems into the bussiness market. Systems were agents are able to comunicate between themselves and with the human users, and sometimes even navigate between diferent computers. Stiil, there are some issues that separate these tools from a total integration with the organisations information systems. Namely, an explicit knowledge from the agents about the organisational structure and data, and development tools to design the agent society in accordance with the human organisation. Our present work intends to consolidate in multi-agent societies the concept of collective agent and of agent organisations. For that goal we have developed a methodology that allows us to model an organisation both at an informal and a formal level. From this model is then possible to implement a multi -agent society that reflects the analysed organisational structure. W ith this paper we intend to bridge the gap between the area of multi -agent systems and areas like System Analysis, Management, or Operational Research. It's content include an introduction to the Beer Viable System Model and it's application in modelling artificial agent societies. At the end we present a case study and…

Separation and Reaction Engineering (LSRE), Departamento de Engenharia Química, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias (4200-465), Porto, Portugal. Abstract. The members of the MERCOSUR as well as the European Union have agreed in the Kyoto protocol to diminish 12% the emissions of carbon dioxide up to 2010. Carbon dioxide emissions are quite high in the entire European continent with many countries being in the top 20 larger polluting countries of the…

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b,1 Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969, Safat, Kuwait b Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969, Safat, Kuwait Available online 7 November 2006 Abstract Scheduling with setup times or setup costs plays a crucial role in todays modern manufacturing and service environments where reliable products/services are to be delivered on time. Scheduling activities profoundly depend on the…

of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill GPU-based Video Feature Tracking And Matching Sudipta N. Sinha1 , Jan-Michael Frahm1 , Marc Pollefeys1 , Yakup Genc2 1 2 Department of Computer Science, CB# 3175 Sitterson Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Real-time Vision and Modeling Department, Siemens Corporate Research, 755 College Road East, Princeton, NJ 08540 Abstract This paper describes novel implementations of the KLT feature tracking and SIFT feature…

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Two-step flow of communication (1944) Também chamada de Teoria dos Fluxos de Comunicação em dois tempos, a teoria divulgada por Paul Lazarsfeld e os pesquisadores Bernard Berelson e Hazel Gaudet se consolidou com uma pesquisa feita no estado de Ohio, USA, sobre a decisão de votos dos eleitores. Crentes de que a comunicação de massa era a principal responsável por influenciar nos votos da população, os pesquisadores se surpreenderam quando se depararam com os resultados das…

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Characterizing and Modeling Internet Traffic Dynamics of Cellular Devices † Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA ‡ AT&T Labs – Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA M. Zubair Shafiq† Lusheng Ji‡ Alex X. Liu† Jia Wang‡ {shafiqmu,alexliu}@cse.msu.edu, {lji,jiawang}@research.att.com ABSTRACT Understanding Internet traffic dynamics in large cellular networks is important for network design, troubleshooting, performance…