Flexible Management of Changing Organizational Structures (We can)

Where we show that the agent-oriented philosophy for dealing with organizational relationships is appropriate for complex systems.

• Organizational constructs are first-class entities in agent systems.
• Agent systems can flexibly form, maintain, and disband organizations.
• This allows an agent system to vary the notion of a primitive component according to the needs of the observer (from agent to collections of teams).
• It also provides a variety of stable intermediate forms which are essential for the rapid development of complex systems.