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A Formalization of Multiagent Organizations in Business Information Systems

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Multiagent (MA) organizations can be regarded as a functional part in business information systems, in which software agents negotiate conditions for participation in the organization. How the strategic behavior of self-interested agents and MA-Organizations affects the formation process, however, is still not known. This research is concerned with the specification of MA-Organizations in business information systems and the design of negotiation protocols for determining the agents participation conditions. We draw on mechanism design to model the participation decision of the agent and the organization as a bilateral trading game. In a simulation experiment we find that a rather simple manipulation scheme provides a suitable approximation for the equilibrium strategies employed by the agents.

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This work has been supported by the project InnOPlan, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi, FKZ 01MD15002).

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  1. Department of Information Systems 2, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

    Tobias Widmer, Marc Premm & Stefan Kirn

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Poznan Univ of Economics and Business, Poznan, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz

  2. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

    Rainer Alt

  3. Information System Institute, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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Widmer, T., Premm, M., Kirn, S. (2016). A Formalization of Multiagent Organizations in Business Information Systems. In: Abramowicz, W., Alt, R., Franczyk, B. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39426-8_21

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