Computational organization theory
Multiagent systems
Dynamic reorganization of decision-making groups
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Using self-diagnosis to adapt organizational structures
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Coordinating Mutually Exclusive Resources using GPGP
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Organization Self-Design of Distributed Production Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
An Experimental Evaluation of Domain-Independent Fault Handling Services in Open Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
Environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The analysis of coordination in an information system application: emergency medical services
AOIS'04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems II
Agent cloning: an approach to agent mobility and resource allocation
IEEE Communications Magazine
Exploring Robustness in the Context of Organizational Self-design
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
Self-organising agent organisations
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Analyzing the tradeoffs between breakup and cloning in the context of organizational self-design
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Decentralised Structural Adaptation in Agent Organisations
Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems
Towards a framework for agent coordination and reorganization, AgentCoRe
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
Self-organisation in an agent network via multiagent Q-learning
PKAW'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Knowledge management and acquisition for smart systems and services
Decentralized approaches for self-adaptation in agent organizations
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) - Special section on formal methods in pervasive computing, pervasive adaptation, and self-adaptive systems: Models and algorithms
Self-organization in an agent network: A mechanism and a potential application
Decision Support Systems
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Organizations are an important basis for coordination in multiagent systems. However, there is no best way to organize and all ways of organizing are not equally effective. Attempting to optimize an organizational structure depends strongly on environmental features including problem characteristics, available resources, and agent capabilities. If the environment is dynamic, the environmental conditions or the problem task structure may change over time. This precludes the use of static, design-time generated, organizational structures in such systems. On the other hand, for many real environments, the problems are not totally unique either: certain characteristics and conditions change slowly, if at all, and these can have an important effect in creating stable organizational structures. Organizational-Self Design (OSD) has been proposed as an approach for constructing suitable organizational structures at runtime. We extend the existing OSD approach to include worth-oriented domains, model other resources in addition to only processor resources and build in robustness into the organization. We then evaluate our approach against the contract-net approach and show that our OSD agents perform better, are more efficient, and more flexible to changes in the environment.