document: Dependence graphs : dependence within and between groups This paper applies the two-party dependence theory -LRB- Castelfranchi , Cesta and Miceli , 1992 , in Y. Demazeau and E. Werner -LRB- Eds . -RRB- Decentralized AI-3 , Elsevier , North Holland -RRB- to modelling multiagent and group dependence . These have theoretical potentialities for the study of emerging groups and collective structures , and more generally for understanding social and organisational complexity , and practical utility for both social-organisational and agent systems purposes . In the paper , the dependence theory is extended to describe multiagent links , with a special reference to group and collective phenomena , and is proposed as a framework for the study of emerging social structures , such as groups and collectives . In order to do so , we propose to extend the notion of dependence networks -LRB- applied to a single agent -RRB- to dependence graphs -LRB- applied to an agency -RRB- . In its present version , the dependence theory is argued to provide -LRB- a -RRB- a theoretical instrument for the study of social complexity , and -LRB- b -RRB- a computational system for managing the negotiation process in competitive contexts and for monitoring complexity in organisational and other cooperative contexts
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