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The organization concept is an important abstraction to analyze and design multi-agent system. In this paper, we argue, the organization constraints should be explicitly modeled and reasoned when developing multi-agent system. The characteristics of organization constraint are discussed, a systematic method to model and reason the organization constraints is put forward and a case is studied.
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Mao, X., Chen, J. (2005). Model Organization Constraints in Multi-Agent System. In: Shi, Z., He, Q. (eds) Intelligent Information Processing II. IIP 2004. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 163. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23152-8_1
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