Enhancing MAS Environments with Organizational Mechanisms

Organizational mechanisms can be introduced in a multi-agent system with the aim of influencing the behavior of agents to achieve their objectives in a proper way. Thus, they are designed to achieve a better coordination between agents. In this paper, we propose to model organizational mechanisms by...

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Main Authors: Esparcia, S, Argente, Estefanía, Centeno, R, Hermoso, Ramón
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
agent-oriented software engineering
Artificial intelligence
Cognition
environment
Joining processes
Multiagent systems
organizational mechanisms
Organizations
Proposals
Software engineering
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Summary:Organizational mechanisms can be introduced in a multi-agent system with the aim of influencing the behavior of agents to achieve their objectives in a proper way. Thus, they are designed to achieve a better coordination between agents. In this paper, we propose to model organizational mechanisms by means of artifacts, which were presented within the Agents & Artifacts approach, and that present good advantages for coordinating agents environments. We claim that artifacts, as reactive entities located into the environment of a Multi-agent System, can help agents to reach their goals, seem to be a suitable abstraction for modeling organizational mechanisms. We also give some examples of possible uses.
ISSN:1082-3409
2375-0197
DOI:10.1109/ICTAI.2010.71