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A Multi-Agent System for the Pay-As-You-GO (PAYGO) Social Security Scheme

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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing (HoloMAS 2009)

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Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are suitable for dealing with applications where the environment is both dynamic and very complex, with several type of competitors to get involved. Thus, in this paper, we import MAS conceptualization into the well-known (quasi) Pay-As-You-GO social security scheme; practically useful for many Western Economies. First, we start our analysis with the individual agent and subsequently we move towards a system containing many (cognitive) social agents that considers relations, coordinations and interactions.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, 76, Patission Str., Athens, GR, 10434, Greece

    Athanasios A. Pantelous & Alexandros A. Zimbidis

  2. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics and Oceanography Building, University of Liverpool, Peach Str., Liverpool, L69 7ZL, U.K.

    Athanasios A. Pantelous

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  1. Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, 16627 Praha 6, Czech Republic and Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague, Pekařská 10a/695,, 15500, Prague 5,, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík

  2. PROFACTOR GmbH, Im Stadtgut A2, 4407, Steyr-Gleink, Austria

    Thomas Strasser

  3. Automation and Control Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Alois Zoitl

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Pantelous, A.A., Zimbidis, A.A. (2009). A Multi-Agent System for the Pay-As-You-GO (PAYGO) Social Security Scheme. In: Mařík, V., Strasser, T., Zoitl, A. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_28

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