A calculus of mobile processes, II
Information and Computation
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
Business Dynamics
MOISE+: towards a structural, functional, and deontic model for MAS organization
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
On Honey Bees and Dynamic Server Allocation in Internet Hosting Centers
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Case studies for self-organization in computer science
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal - Special issue: Nature-inspired applications and systems
A Labeled Graph Approach to Analyze Organizational Performance
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Theoretical Computer Science
Method fragments for agent design methodologies: from standardisation to research
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Design Patterns for Self-organising Systems
CEEMAS '07 Proceedings of the 5th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V
Towards a Methodology for Engineering Self-Organising Emergent Systems
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
AGRE: integrating environments with organizations
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Organizational and social concepts in agent oriented software engineering
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Using the experimental method to produce reliable self-organised systems
Engineering Self-Organising Systems
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
Information and Software Technology
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Organization---oriented modeling approaches are established tools for Agent---Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) efforts. Role and Group concepts are prevalent concepts in the design of agent---based applications. These allow the definition and partition of static organizational structures and facilitate the description of agent behaviors in terms of role/group changing activities. Due to a growing interest in the construction of adaptive and self---organizing dynamics within MAS --- i.e. applications that adjust their organizational structure at runtime --- developers require tools for expressing the dynamics of MAS organizations, that result from individual agent activity and adaptiveness. In this paper we discuss how the macroscopic behavior of organizational structures can be modeled by relating systemic modeling techniques to MAS designs. Particularly the notions of causal loop diagrams , composed of system properties connected by causal links are applied to express the timely behavior of role and group occupations. Corresponding modeling activities are facilitated by a graphical notation that highlights feedback loops. Since simulations are indispensable to examine complex, non---linear behaviors, we discuss how the systemic semantics can be translated into systems of stochastic process algebra terms, therefore enabling model simulation.