Automatic Generation of Distributed Team Formation Algorithms from Organizational Models

  • Authors:

  • Michael Köhler-Bußmeier;Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, D---22527;Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, D---22527

  • Venue:
  • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Software systems are subject to ever increasing complexity and in need of efficient structuring. The concept of organization as an expressive and abstract real-world reference presents a promising starting point. Organizational concepts have particularly been studied within the multi-agent systems community. However, there exists a conceptual gap between organizational specifications and their multi-agent implementation. We address this problem by presenting an integrated approach to formalize organizational models with Petri nets and to directly deploy these specifications in a multi-agent system. The operational semantics of Petri nets establishes a close link between organizational specification and deployment that eases system development and maintenance. As an important example, we are able to describe the formation of multi-agent teams in an organizational scenario in terms of Petri net dynamics.