Resumen
As the Internet continues to grow, social activities through the Net will become more and more common. Although several systems exist for supporting communities over the Internet, these systems have limitations that will pose problems in supporting forthcoming network communities. To resolve these problems, multiagent systems are being developed to assist in various activities on network communities. These systems are called "socialware." A community is viewed as a collection of personal units, community agents and the set of relations between them. The community agents have the function of providing shared information, knowledge, or contexts within the community and act as mediators for informal communications between people. Having an architecture where each user has personal agents that communicate with each other enables the community to spread over the Internet. There are still several technical challenges in implementing socialware as a multiagent system, namely how to make a coalition of agents and how humans and agents can effectively collaborate as a system.