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Multi-agent systems (MAS) are often understood as complex entities where a multitude of agents interact, usually with some intended individual or collective goals.Such a view usually assumessomeform of organization,or set of norms or conventions that articulate or restrain interactions in order to make them more e?ective, certain, or predictable for participants. Engineering e?ective coordi- tion or regulatory mechanisms is a key problem for the design of open complex multi-agent systems. In recent years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in MAS research especially in applications on service-oriented c- puting, grid computing and ambient intelligence. These applications enforce the need for using these aspects in order to ensure social order within these en- ronments. Openness, heterogeneity, and scalability of MAS pose new demands on traditional MAS interaction models. Therefore, the view of coordination and controlhasto be expanded to consider not onlyan agent-centricperspective but also societal and organization-centric views. However, agent autonomy is often needed for concretely implementing social order,because autonomousagents can intelligently adapt the designedorgani- tion to particular cases and can face unpredicted events. From this perspective autonomy can also be a possible source of internal change in the designed or- nizational constructs. Di?erently, autonomous behavior can also originate forms of self-organizationwhich emerge out of local interactions and are only partially externally programmed. In such situations the self-organized order and the - ternally designed organization can even be in con?ict.
