A Variational Basis for the Regulation and Structuration Mechanisms of Agent Societies
This book introduces exchange process-driven social networks as a foundation for the core operational structures of the particular type of multi-agent systems we call agent societies. The core operational structures of agent societies encompass, in hierar
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ariational Basis for the Regulation and Structuration Mechanisms of Agent Societies
A Variational Basis for the Regulation and Structuration Mechanisms of Agent Societies
Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa
A Variational Basis for the Regulation and Structuration Mechanisms of Agent Societies
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Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Preface
This book intends to advance the research in agent societies, as such systems are conceived here. It focuses on the regulation and structuration of agent societies, providing the most elementary component for their formal establishment, namely, a variational basis. Variations allow the controlled change of the structure and functioning of agent societies, at all their operatory levels. Structuration and regulation mechanisms may, then, make use of variations to promote structuration and regulation processes in those societies. Structuration, it should be clear, is the notion that we have borrowed from Anthony Giddens’ work, adapting it to the formal framework of agent societies that we have been developing for some time and used extensively in this book. Structuration is a self-guided construction process whose mechanism is realized by the very social actors of the societies where it happens. Regulation, on the other hand, is the classical concept that allows systems to keep their structure and functioning in accordance with previously stipulated limits. In th
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