FORMALIZING VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS

Sergio Esparcia, Estefanía Argente

2011

Abstract

This work presents a formalization of Virtual Organizations, which are designed by means of their structural entities, such as roles, organizational units or norms, and the dynamic entities that change through time like agents and groups. Entities are grouped by means of the Organizational Dimensions, explicitly represented in the proposed formalization. Additionally, a study of existing formalizations of Organization Centered Multiagent Systems is presented.

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Esparcia S. and Argente E. (2011). FORMALIZING VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-41-6, pages 84-93. DOI: 10.5220/0003156500840093


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart11,
author={Sergio Esparcia and Estefanía Argente},
title={FORMALIZING VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={84-93},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003156500840093},
isbn={978-989-8425-41-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - FORMALIZING VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS
SN - 978-989-8425-41-6
AU - Esparcia S.
AU - Argente E.
PY - 2011
SP - 84
EP - 93
DO - 10.5220/0003156500840093