A FORMAL HOLONIC FRAMEWORK WITH PROVED SELF-ORGANIZING CAPABILITIES

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
SEBASTIAN RODRIGUEZ ◽  
VINCENT HILAIRE ◽  
PABLO GRUER ◽  
ABDER KOUKAM
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The Self ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Real World Problem ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Self Similar ◽  
Systems Architectures ◽  
Self Organizing

Numerous works aim to design agents and multi-agent systems architectures in order to enable cooperation and coordination between agents. Most of them use organizational structures or societies metaphor to define the MAS architecture. It seems improbable that a rigid unscalable organization could handle a real world problem, so it is interesting to provide agents with abilities to self-organize according to problem's objectives and environment dynamics. We have chosen the holonic paradigm to provide these abilities to agents. Holons are recursive self-similar entities which are organized in an emergent society — an holarchy. The aim of this paper is to present a formally specified framework for holonic MAS which allows agents to self-organize. The framework is illustrated by an example drawn from a real world problem. Some pertinent properties concerning the self-organizing capabilities of this framework are then proved.

scholarly journals Multi-agent systems for the real world

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv T. Maheswaran ◽  
Craig M. Rogers ◽  
Romeo Sanchez ◽  
Pedro Szekely ◽  
Robert Neches
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
The Real ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Multi Agent

scholarly journals A Logic for Agent Organizations

2009 ◽  
pp. 220-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virgina Dignum ◽  
Frank Dignum
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
The Relationship

Organization concepts and models are increasingly being adopted for the design and specification of multi-agent systems. Agent organizations can be seen as mechanisms of social order, created to achieve common goals for more or less autonomous agents. In order to develop a theory on the relationship between organizational structures, organizational actions, and actions of agents performing roles in the organization, we need a theoretical framework to describe and reason about organizations. The formal model presented in this chapter is sufficiently generic to enable the comparison of different existing organizational approaches to Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), while having enough descriptive power to describe realistic organizations.

scholarly journals Agent organisations: from independent agents to virtual organisations and societies of agents

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Jose Alberto Maestro-Prieto ◽  
Sara Rodríguez ◽  
Roberto Casado ◽  
Juan Manuel Corchado
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Virtual Organisations ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Conflicting Objectives ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
The Way

Real world applications using agent-based solutions can include many agents that needs communicate and interact each other in order to meet their objectives. In open multi-agent systems, the problems may include the organisation of a large number of agents that may be heterogeneous, of unpredictable provenance and where competitive behaviours or conflicting objectives may occur. An overview of the alternatives for dealing with these problems is presented, highlighting the way they try to solve or mitigate these problems.

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