Computational and mathematical organization theory: perspective and directions
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
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A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms
The Knowledge Engineering Review
A capabilities-based model for adaptive organizations
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Automated organization design for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
P4p: provider portal for applications
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Taming the torrent: a practical approach to reducing cross-isp traffic in peer-to-peer systems
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
A Peer-to-Peer Normative System to Achieve Social Order
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
An Infection-Based Mechanism for Self-Adaptation in Multi-agent Complex Networks
SASO '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
Multi-agent system adaptation in a peer-to-peer scenario
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Coordination support in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Adapting Autonomic Electronic Institutions to Heterogeneous Agent Societies
Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems
Decentralised Structural Adaptation in Agent Organisations
Organized Adaption in Multi-Agent Systems
2-LAMA Architecture vs. BitTorrent Protocol in a Peer-to-Peer Scenario
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Role model based mechanism for norm emergence in artificial agent societies
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
Artificial Intelligence
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Existing organisational centred multi-agent systems (MAS) regulate agents' activities. Nevertheless, population and/or environmental changes may lead to a poor fulfilment of the system's purposes, and therefore, adapting the whole organisation becomes key. This is even more needed in open MAS, where participants are unknown beforehand, they may change over time, and there are no guarantees about their behaviours nor capabilities. Hence, in this paper we focus on endowing an organisation with self-adaptation capabilities instead of expecting agents to increase their behaviour complexity. We regard this organisational adaptation as an assisting service provided by what we call the Assistance Layer. Our abstract Two Level Assisted MAS Architecture (2-LAMA) incorporates such a layer. We empirically evaluate our adaptation mechanism in a P2P scenario by comparing it with the standard BitTorrent protocol. Results provide a performance improvement and show that the cost of introducing an additional layer in charge of system's adaptation is lower than its benefits.