Organizational Principles for Multi-Agent Architectures

• Main Author: Aart, Chris van (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2005.
• Series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Theory of Computation.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

1. 1 Background In this work, we develop a framework for the design of multi-agent systems inspired by (human) organizational principles. Organizations are complex entities formed to ov- come various limitations of individual agencies, such as cognitive, physical, temporal and institutional limitati...

Table of Contents:

• Agent Organization Framework
• Coordination Strategies for Multi-Agent Systems
• Five Capabilities Model
• Interoperation within a Complex Multi-Agent Architecture
• Message Content Ontologies
• Conclusions.