International Journal of Distributed Computing and Technology
Distributed computing and agent technology
Abstract
The technology of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems has fundamentally transformed distributed computations and software development changing the way in which complex, distributed computing and communicating systems are conceptualized, designed, assembled and implemented. In this paper, we study distributed computations in the context of agent organizations and principal-agent relation making emphasis on the organizational structure of agent functioning and interaction. To achieve higher generality and at the same time, better precision, agents are studied as special types of actors operating within principal-agent relations. At first, the concept of an agent is specified and extended. Then we study properties of actors involved in the principal-agent relations. Finally, we describe and explore agent organizations specifying different types of their structures.References (36)
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