-- Cooperation -- degree of success measured by:

the capability of agents to keep their own goals

the capability to allow other agents to reach their goals

-- Planning -- one of the strongest forms of cooperation shared goals and plans

-- agents allocate tasks among them following the plan

-- Competition -- antagonist agents, selfish, compete against each other

-- Negotiation -- kind of competition that involves some higher level of intelligence

-- degree of success: capability of agent to maximize its own benefit

capability of not taking into account the other agents' benefit or trying to minimize it

-- Centralized coordination -- one agent that ensures coordination --control og other's goals or part of their work, knowledge about others' capabilities

-- priority goes to this agent, the goals of the system are his goals

-- easier to implement, easier to collapse

-- distributed control, internalize control in each agent, provided with reasoning and social abilities to reason about intentions and knowledge of other agents + the global goal of the society , succesful coordination with others and resolving conflicts when necessary

-- in domains where the cost of a conflict is dear or resolution is difficult, completely independent behaviour becomes unreasonable -- we need some structure

-- human societies - inspiration in sociology, organizational theory

-- Trust & Reputation, Social Strctures and Social Roles, Electronic Organizations, Virtual Organizations, Electronic Institutions

	Creado por Doria Šarić hace más de 8 años

preparation for an exam on UPC