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In multi-agent system literature, the role concept is getting increasingly researched to provide an abstraction to scope beliefs, norms, goals of agents and to shape relationships of the agents in the organization. In this research, we propose a knowledgebase architecture to increase applicability of roles in MAS domain by drawing inspiration from the self concept in the role theory of sociology. The proposed knowledgebase architecture has granulated structure that is dynamically organized according to the agent’s identification in a social environment. Thanks to this dynamic structure, agents are enabled to work on consistent knowledge in spite of inevitable conflicts between roles and the agent. The knowledgebase architecture is also implemented and incorporated into the SEAGENT multi-agent system development framework.
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Kır, H., Ekinci, E.E., Dikenelli, O. (2009). Knowledge Management in Role Based Agents. In: Aldewereld, H., Dignum, V., Picard, G. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World X. ESAW 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5881. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5_16
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