From Obligations to Organizational Structures in Multi-Agent Systems

Authors:
J. Octavio Gutiérrez-García;Jean-Luc Koning;Félix F. Ramos-Corchado
Affiliations:
LCIS Research Laboratory, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Valence Cedex 9, France 26902 and Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Unidad Guadalajara, Jalisco, México ...;LCIS Research Laboratory, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Valence Cedex 9, France 26902;Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Unidad Guadalajara, Jalisco, México 45010
Venue:
PRIMA '08 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents: Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The achievement of common objectives in multi-agent systems is only possible through interaction and coordination; in order to implement both aspects in a effective manner, rules to direct the behavior of a group of agents are necessary, however, existing rules are usually static, inflexible, and inappropriate for large systems, where dynamic interaction takes place. We propose modeling agent behavior by means of obligations, utilized as social norms, delineating agents' roles as independent components, which can be grouped into organizational structures. Moreover, such organizations can be deployed on a service oriented platform, where the composition of organizations leads to the creation of new services.