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Deployment. Allows to define a MAS at instance level that can be used for
startup.
Goal. Explicit representation of a goal hierarchy in form of an and/or tree
representation.
Event. A stimulus the agents can react to.
Environment. Allows the agents to sense information from the outside envi-
ronment and to manipulate the outside environment with actuators.
Resource. Was introduced to connect agents with a service-oriented environ-
ment.

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Fig. 3. The Multiagent System Aspect in PIM4Agents

Fig. 3 shows the MAS aspect which includes all major concepts a MAS is
composed of. Out of these we want to briefly discuss the following: Agent, Or-
ganization, Role, Interaction, and Behavior.

Fig. 4. The Agent Aspect of PIM4Agents

An agent (see 4) has behaviors that may be grouped to capabilities which
together with the information in the information model allow the agent to achieve
its goals. The agent might perform roles in an organizational structure.
An organization (see 5) is in the first place composed of roles. The agents that
actually perform these roles are grouped together in concrete collaborations to
be able to achieve the organization's goals. DomainRoles allow a renaming of role