A Multi-Agent Framework for Inter-Organizational Applications
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چکیده
The CEC GOAL Project (Esprit 6283) aims to develop generic software tools to support inter-organizational project management. Some distinguishing characteristics of inter-organizational projects are that they are collaborative, decentralised and heterogeneous. This means that generic issues in project management (such as risk and uncertainty) take on an extra dimension, and there are many new problems to be addressed, such as information access, dissemination, and security, the coordination of independent partners, and communication between partners at remote sites. Our work focuses on the inter-organizational aspects of communication and interaction which enable participating organizations to complete shared tasks and to achieve shared goals i.e. computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) for inter-organizational projects. The GOAL Cooperation Services Framework (henceforth CSF) is proposed to enable the specification of project-wide standards for normalized interactions between autonomous software agents acting in a federated information system, so providing mechanisms to:
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