This paper proposes architectural styles for multi-agent systems (MAS) which adopt concepts from organization theory and strategic alliances. These styles are socio-intentional in the sense that they consist of actors who have goals to fulfil and social dependencies describing their obligations. They are represented in i*, a framework designed to model social and intentional primitives and form...

This paper begins by describing the evolving environment towards greater adaptability in today’s business processes and the limitations of current methodologies in providing ways to support such processes. Support systems require ways to integrate social connectivity and interactivity into business processes in ways that enable the process to be dynamically changed. The paper describes models t...