In order to organize huge document collections, labeled hierarchical structures are used frequently. Users are most efficient in navigating such hierarchies, if they reflect their personal interests. Thus, we propose in this article an approach that is able to derive a personalized hierarchical structure from a document collection. The approach is based on a semi-supervised hierarchical cluster...

We present a conceptual framework for agent societies that incorporates the specification of global organizational characteristics with individual aims and capabilities. The framework consists of three interrelated models each describing different aspects of the society. The organizational model describes agent societies in terms of roles, constraints and interactions rules. The social model po...

Global component behaviours as distinguished in Paradigm, offer the ingredients for specifying inter-component coordination in separation from and consistent with detailed component behaviour. The paper discusses how global behaviours provide great flexibility in arranging computation as well as coordination. In the context of a mediating example we plea for taking such flexibility as an organi...

This paper presents a formal framework for process-oriented modeling and analysis of organizations. The high expressivity of a sorted predicate logic language used for specification allows representing a wide range of process-related concepts (e.g., tasks, processes, resources), characteristics and relations, which are described in the paper. Furthermore, for every organization, structural and ...

Although MAS researchers have recently an increased interest in social agency, the explicit representation and exploitation of organizational aspects has not gained much attention. This paper, based on the organizational model proposed in [ ], investigates the organizational programming paradigm. The approach proposed in this paper, in contrast to other approaches, emphasizes on group thinking ...

The current study aimed to investigate the contextual factors in formation and maintenance of process-oriented organization and the effect of the identified factors on strategy development of the organization. A questionnaire was designed to measure the research variables in which its validity and reliability was confirmed by factor analysis. The instrument was distributed among 183 managers, o...

Software systems are subject to increasing complexity and in need of efficient structuring. Multi-agent system research has come up with approaches for an organization-oriented comprehension of software systems. However, when it comes to the collective level of organizational analysis, multi-agent system technology lacks clear development concepts. To overcome this problem while preserving the ...