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Modeling and designing systems that require a high level of coordination, control and automation is a very difficult task. The problem is the lack of design processes able to cover all the features these systems present. This paper presents an extension of the ASPECS metamodel for supporting organizational and normative principles and it allows to define models not only from an holonic agent viewpoint but also from a normative organization perspective. Moreover, our work emphasizes and makes it explicit the norms that regulate the structural, behavioral and finally adaptive aspect of an organizational system. The extended metamodel was experimented creating a Virtual Enterprise model for the optimization of distributions inside the logistic districts. This organizational model is implemented using JaCaMo.
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Ribino, P., Lodato, C., Lopes, S., Seidita, V., Hilaire, V., Cossentino, M. (2013). A Norm-Governed Holonic Multi-agent System Metamodel. In: Müller, J.P., Cossentino, M. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII. AOSE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7852. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39866-7_2
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