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   <p>Technological evolution over recent years (Internet, www, electronic 
   commerce, wireless connection etc.) has led to a new paradigm of “computing 
   as interaction”. Under this paradigm, computing is something that is carried 
   out through the communication between computational entities. In this sense, 
   computing is an inherently social activity rather than solitary, leading to new 
   forms of conceiving, designing, developing and managing computational systems. 
   One example of the influence of this viewpoint is the emerging model of 
   software as a service, for example in service-oriented architectures. 
   The technology of agents/multiagent systems is particularly promising as 
   a support for this new computing as interaction paradigm. Dynamic agent 
   organisations that self-adjust in order to make the most of their current 
   environment are increasingly important. These organisations could appear in 
   dynamic or emerging societies of agents such as Grid domains, peer-to-peer 
   networks, or other environments in which the agents coordinate in a dynamic 
   way in order to offer composite services. The social factors in the organisation 
   of multi-agent systems are also increasingly important for structuring 
   interactions in dynamic open worlds. Within this interesting area, part of the 
   more general field of Intelligent Systems, we can identify a number of important 
   lines of research:</p>

   <ul><li>Dynamics/Regulation: flexibility in order to permit the entry and
      exit of agents, evolution of the organisational structure,
      regulation mechanisms etc.</li>

      <li>Heterogeneity: different types of agents with different
      capabilities, runtime coordination (requiring semantic description
      of the capacities/services), different devices (physical device
      resources), different channels of communication (wireless, wireline,
      etc.)</li></ul>

   <p>The aim of the present project is to advance and contribute solutions in 
   these areas, principally in the aspects related to organisational structures. 
   In this sense, the following is proposed:</p>

   <ul><li>
        to develop a multiagent system architecture that is suitable for
        the generation of virtual organisations in open environments, as
        well as a support platform that will allow these systems to be
        implemented.
   </li>
      <li>
        to design a method for developing open multiagent systems which is
        orientated towards the concept of organisation, and which will
        cover the complete life cycle of an open system, allowing the
        suitable management of large scale complex systems and giving
        specific support in order to meet the possible needs of these
        types of systems.</li>

      <li>
        to develop a model of agents capable of taking decisions
        autonomously, equipped with learning mechanisms and able to
        respond to events, planning and replanning within runtime.</li>

      <li>
        to develop intelligent service coordination techniques/methods
        within open, decentralised multiagent systems: intelligent service
        location (directory services, syntactic and semantic comparison
        techniques for services) and generation and adaptation of composed
        services.</li>

      <li>
        to develop mechanisms based on organisational structures and
        virtual organisations that optimise and regulate the coordination
        of services in open multiagent systems.</li>

      <li>
        to define the mechanisms that allow the interaction between agents
        in open distributed wireless systems in which problems of
        communication and security may occur.</li>

      <li>
        to develop and implement the necessary security and privacy policies.</li>

      <li>
        to develop various prototypes in order to validate the proposed
        architecture in collaboration with companies interested in the
        proposal and in the results that are obtained from the project. </li></ul>

   <p>You can find more information about the project at 
   <a href="http://www.thomas-tin.org/">http://www.thomas-tin.org/</a></p>


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