Artifacting the Organizational Mechanisms: Adding Functionality in MAS Environments

Author

Esparcia, Sergio ; Argente, Estefanía ; Centeno, Roberto ; Hermoso, Ramón

Author_Institution

Dept. de Sist. Informaticos y Comput., Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 3 2010

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

355

Abstract

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. We propose to model organizational mechanisms by means of artifacts, which 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.

Keywords

multi-agent systems; MAS environments; coordinating agents environments; functionality; multiagent system; organizational mechanisms; reactive entities; Artificial intelligence; Concrete; Joining processes; Multiagent systems; Organizations; Probability distribution; Proposals; Artifacts; agent-oriented software engineering; environment; organizational mechanisms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8482-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4191-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.58

Filename

5614109