Supervising Mechanism for Contract Based Virtual Organization

Author

Cai, Guoyong ; Qian, Junyan ; Gao, Ji

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Guilin Univ. of Electron. Technol., Guilin, China

fYear

2009

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

859

Lastpage

862

Abstract

Contract based agent organization management is a promising paradigm. However contract enforcement is vulnerable without appropriate supervising mechanism in this dynamic and autonomous setting. Based on commitment and ontology theory, a contract description language is proposed. A contract supervising semantics and a supervising algorithm is formulated. The proposed mechanism is suitable for contract violation checking and processing, and thus it is helpful to improve safety, reliability and robustness of autonomic agent organization.

Keywords

multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); specification languages; contract description language; contract supervising semantics; contract violation checking; contract-based agent organization management; contract-based virtual organization; ontology theory; supervising mechanism; Computer architecture; Computer science; Contracts; DSL; Genetics; Large-scale systems; Ontologies; Robustness; Safety; Specification languages; agent; contract supervising; contract violation; virtual organization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, 2009. WGEC '09. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3899-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WGEC.2009.163

Filename

5402846