Analytical techniques are generally inadequate for dealing with causal interrelationships among a set of individual and social concepts. In this paper, we present a software tool called CM-RELVIEW based on relational algebra for dealing with such causal interrelationships. Then we investigate the issue of using this tool in multiagent environments, particularly in the case of: (1) the qualitative distributed decision making and, (2) the organization of agents considered as a wholistic approach. For each of these aspects, we focus on the computational mechanisms developed within CM-RELVIEW to support it.
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