On Resource Profiling and Matching in an Agent-Based Virtual Organization

An agent-based Virtual Organization is a complex entity where dynamic collections of agents agree to share resources in order to accomplish a global goal or offer a complex service. An important problem for the performance of the Virtual Organization is the distribution of the agents across the computational resources. The final distribution should provide a good load balancing for the organization. In this article, a genetic algorithm is applied to calculate a proper distribution across hosts in an agent-based Virtual Organization. Additionally, an abstract multi-agent system architecture which provides infrastructure for Virtual Organization distribution is introduced. The developed genetic solution employs an elitist crossover operator where one of the children inherits the most promising genetic material from the parents with higher probability. In order to validate the genetic proposal, the designed genetic algorithm has been successfully compared to several heuristics in different scenarios.

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TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGENT-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH MDD

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools ◽

10.1142/s0218213013500024 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 22 (02) ◽

pp. 1350002 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

JORGE AGÜERO ◽

CARLOS CARRASCOSA ◽

MIGUEL REBOLLO ◽

VICENTE JULIÁN

Keyword(s):

Virtual Organization ◽

Point Of View ◽

Multi Agent Systems ◽

Extensive Experience ◽

Agent Based ◽

Agent Systems ◽

Model Driven ◽

Generic Agent ◽

Multi Agent ◽

Model Driven Approach

Virtual Organizations are a mechanism where agents can demonstrate their social skills since they can work in a cooperative and collaborative way. Nonetheless, the development of organizations using Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) requires extensive experience in different methodologies and platforms. Model-Driven Development (MDD) is a technique for generating application code that is developed from basic models and meta-models using a variety of automatic transformations. This paper presents an approach to develop and deploy organization-oriented Multi-Agent Systems using a model-driven approach. Based on this idea, we introduce a relatively generic agent-based meta-model for a Virtual Organization, which was created by a comprehensive analysis of the organization-oriented methodologies used in MAS. Following the MDD approach, the concepts and relationships obtained were mapped into two different platforms available for MAS development, allowing the validation of our proposal. In this way, the resultant approach can generate Virtual Organization deployments from unified meta-models, facilitating the development process of agent-based software from the user point of view.

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An Agent-Based Approach to Joint Procurement Modeling with Virtual Organization

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering - Advances in Neural Network Research and Applications ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-12990-2_23 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 201-210

Author(s):

Chih-Yao Lo ◽

Hung-Teng Chang ◽

Yu-Teng Chang ◽

Hsiu-Yun Hu

Keyword(s):

Virtual Organization ◽

Agent Based ◽

Joint Procurement

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On Human Resource Adaptability in an Agent-Based Virtual Organization

New Challenges in Applied Intelligence Technologies - Studies in Computational Intelligence ◽

10.1007/978-3-540-79355-7_11 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 111-120 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Costin Bădică ◽

Elvira Popescu ◽

Grzegorz Frackowiak ◽

Maria Ganzha ◽

Marcin Paprzycki ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Human Resource ◽

Virtual Organization ◽

Agent Based

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Information resource management in an agent-based virtual organization-initial implementation

Computer Science and Information Systems ◽

10.2298/csis120117029g ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 1307-1330

Author(s):

Maria Ganzha ◽

Adam Omelczuk ◽

Marcin Paprzycki ◽

Mateusz Wypysiak

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

Virtual Organization ◽

Early Stage ◽

Skills Training ◽

Project Managers ◽

Information Resource ◽

Agent Based ◽

Human Interactions ◽

Information Resource Management ◽

Training Resources

In this paper we describe an early stage prototype of a system for information resource management in an agent-based virtual organization. We focus our work on support for human resource adaptability (e.g. knowledge, skills) as a tool for assisting project managers. In the proposed approach, a virtual organization is functionalized in terms of roles played by agents, while organization structure and information flow are represented in terms of agent-agent and agent-human interactions. Finally, all resources (e.g. workers, skills, training resources, etc.) are ontologically demarcated, and information is semantically processed. Discussion of organizational needs is followed by the outline of the system. Finally, basic capabilities of the implemented prototype are illustrated.

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Adaptive Information Provisioning in an Agent-Based Virtual Organization- Preliminary Considerations

10.1109/synasc.2007.79 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Maria Ganzha ◽

Marcin Paprzycki ◽

Maciej Gawinecki ◽

Michal Szymczak ◽

Grzegorz Frackowiak ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Virtual Organization ◽

Agent Based

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Considering Resource Management in Agent-Based Virtual Organization

Intelligent Agents in the Evolution of Web and Applications - Studies in Computational Intelligence ◽

10.1007/978-3-540-88071-4_8 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 161-190 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Grzegorz Frąckowiak ◽

Maria Ganzha ◽

Maciej Gawinecki ◽

Marcin Paprzycki ◽

Michał Szymczak ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

Virtual Organization ◽

Agent Based

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Research on a Framework of Agent-Based Collaborative Job-Shop Scheduling

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.375-376.729 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 375-376 ◽

pp. 729-732

Author(s):

Guang Ming Jiao ◽

Dun Wen Zuo ◽

Min Wang

Keyword(s):

Rough Set ◽

Job Shop ◽

Job Shop Scheduling ◽

Virtual Organization ◽

Collaborative Engineering ◽

Agent Based ◽

Resource Conflicts ◽

Shop Scheduling ◽

Engineering Environment ◽

Fierce Competition

Because of the fierce competition among manufacturers and customers’ diverse needs, it is essential for manufacturers to organize virtual organization to enhance their agilities to the market. However, the job-shop scheduling becomes very complex and very difficult in a temporary virtual organization. To achieve a harmonious collaborative engineering environment, a framework of agent-based collaborative job-shop scheduling is proposed and resource conflicts are discussed, and the theory of rough set and fuzzy appraise are applied to mediate these conflicts.

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