An analysis and design concept for self-organization in holonic multi-agent systems

  • Authors:

  • Sebastian Rodriguez;Nicolas Gaud;Vincent Hilaire;Stéphane Galland;Abderrafiâa Koukam

  • Affiliations:

  • Systems and Transportation Laboratory, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France;Systems and Transportation Laboratory, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France;Systems and Transportation Laboratory, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France;Systems and Transportation Laboratory, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France;Systems and Transportation Laboratory, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France

  • Venue:
  • ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Holonic Multi-Agent Systems (HMAS) are a convenient way to engineer complex and open systems. HMAS are based upon self-similar entities, called holons, which define an organizational structure called holarchy. An open issue of HMAS is to give holons means of self-organization to satisfy their goals. Our works focus on modeling and engineering of complex systems using a holonic organizational approach. This paper introduces the concept of capacity as the description of agents know-how. This concept allows the representation and reasoning about agents know-hows. Even more, it encourages a reusable modeling and provides agents with means to self-organize.