Designing behaviors for information agents
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Semantic interoperability in global information systems
ACM SIGMOD Record
Multimedia Federated Databases on Intranets: Web-Enabling IRO-DB
DEXA '97 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Protocol Moderators as Active Middle-Agents in Multi-Agent Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
An ontology-based architecture for cooperative information agents
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
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Organization modeling is recognized as an essential mechanism for structuring the design of Multi-Agent Systems and coordinating their executions. In this paper, an organizational model for Cooperative Information Gathering Systems (CIGS) is proposed. This model has three levels of abstraction, starting with a general system description and progressively transformed onto a concrete organization. This model is organized around reusable and conceptual basic bricks corresponding to roles and protocols. The roles and their participations in the protocols are defined according to a deontic structure inspired from the GAIA methodology, but specified formally using Petri Nets with Objects. The originalities and the advantages of our proposal are i) the definition of an organizational model adapted to the CIG ii) a formalization of the roles, which makes it possible to analyze and simulate them before their deployment iii) the possibility to reuse the components of the model.