Real world applications using agent-based solutions can include many agents
that needs to communicate and interact with each other in order to meet their
objectives. In organisations; Agent open multi-agent systems, problems can
include not only the organisation of a large number of agents, but can also be
heterogeneous and of unpredictable provenance or behavior. An overview of
the alternatives for dealing with these problems is presented, highlighting the
way they try to solve or mitigate them. This approach allows the development of
complex systems in which there are agents that show very different behaviours
and that are able to adapt to unforeseen changes in the environment. This
makes it possible to simulate socio-technical or natural environments and
observe their possible evolution without the ethical considerations involved in
experimenting in real environments.
