Embodying Organisations - an Introduction

@talk{embodiedorg,
    abstract = {Agents and artifact model for MAS was recently proposed for promoting artifact based environments aimed at improv- ing agent coordination, goal oriented interactions and comu- nication. Nevertheless, the use artifacts for organisational purposes constraints agents to be aware of complex struc- tures of an organisational specfication: for instance, agents have to understand and be able to manipulate low level prim- itives which may be not proper of an application domain. To ease this requirement, we propose "embodied organisational artifacts" (EOA) as an organisational layer binding environ- ment artifacts with organisational ones. EOAs are aimed at transparently interceding with the organisational struc- tures, and at enabling possibly organisation-unaware agents to play in organisations with no need to deal with low level mechanisms of an organisaional specification. We propose a formal description along with examples enlightening benefits of the proposed approach.},
    author = {Piunti, Michele},
    date = {2009-04-10},
    howpublished = {Seminar at Ecole des Mines - G2I, St-Etienne (France)},
    language = {en},
    month = apr,
    sort = {seminar},
    speaker = {Piunti, Michele},
    title = {Embodying Organisations - an Introduction},
    type = {Seminar},
    year = 2009
}