Title
Role of acquaintance models in agent’s private and semi-private knowledge disclosure
Abstract
The organizational architecture of the multi-agent systems and the structure of social knowledge that the members of the community administer are critical factors for assuring such patterns of information exchange that keep agents private knowledge confidential. In this paper we will introduce the concept of agents’ private and semi-private knowledge and we will explain the difference between the alliance – a semi-permanent organizational structure and a coalition – a goal-oriented, non-permanent organizational structure. We will provide the reader with an analysis on how does the agents’ social knowledge, stored in the tri-base acquaintance model, contributes to permanent confidentiality of agents’ private knowledge, preferences, decision making models, resources, etc. The study has been experimentally verified in the domain of planning for humanitarian relief operations within a high number of hardly collaborating and vaguely linked non-governmental organizations is a challenging problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.knosys.2005.10.012
Knowledge-Based Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Agents,Coalition formation,Private/semi-private knowledge,Alliances
Critical factors,Decision-making models,Organizational structure,Confidentiality,Alliance,Computer science,Information exchange,Knowledge management,Organizational architecture,Organizational learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
4
0950-7051
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.45
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michal Pěchouček11134133.88
Vladimir Mařík248663.00
Jaroslav Barta3394.11