Reflection about capabilities for role enactment

Authors:
M. Birna van Riemsdijk;Virginia Dignum;Catholijn M. Jonker;Huib Aldewereld
Affiliations:
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Venue:
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Year:
2011

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Abstract

An organizational modeling language can be used to specify an agent organization in terms of its roles, organizational structure, norms, etc. Using such an organizational specification to organize a multi-agent system should make the agents more effective in attaining their purpose, or prevent certain undesired behavior from occurring. Agents who want to enter and play roles in an organization are expected to understand and reason about the organizational specification. An important aspect that such organization-aware agents should be able to reason about is role enactment. In particular, agents should be able to reflect on whether they have the capabilities to play a role in an organization. In future work it needs to be made precise when an agent can be said to have a certain capability, and how an agent can reflect on its capabilities. This is necessary for programming role enactment in organization-aware agents.