The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
JADE: a FIPA2000 compliant agent development environment
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Perspectives on organizations in multi-agent systems
Mutli-agents systems and applications
The role of roles in designing effective agent organizations
Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Synthesis of a generic MAS metamodel
SELMAS '05 Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
Agent-oriented software engineering
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Method fragments for agent design methodologies: from standardisation to research
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Roles, players and adaptable organizations
Applied Ontology - Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective
Integrating Trust in Virtual Organisations
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Coordinating Tasks in Agent Organizations
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Towards an Ontological Account of Agent-Oriented Goals
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V
Implementing Organisations in JADE
MATES '08 Proceedings of the 6th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
An adaptive security model using agent-oriented MDA
Information and Software Technology
A Unified Graphical Notation for AOSE
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX
Engineering Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems with ODAM Methodology
Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
A multi-agent self-adaptative management framework
International Journal of Network Management
On the Road to an Abstract Architecture for Open Virtual Organizations
IWANN '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Part I: Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence
Balancing Organizational Regulation and Agent Autonomy: An MDE-Based Approach
ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Process models for agent-based development
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
ASPECS: an agent-oriented software process for engineering complex systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
An analysis and design concept for self-organization in holonic multi-agent systems
ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
Modeling the interaction between semantic agents and semantic web services using MDA approach
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
Effective use of organisational abstractions for confidence models
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
An agent framework for processing FIPA-ACL messages based on interaction models
AOSE'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering VIII
Consolidating diagram types from several agent-oriented methodologies
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the 9th SoMeT_10
O-MaSE: a customisable approach to designing and building complex, adaptive multi-agent systems
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
An open architecture for service-oriented virtual organizations
ProMAS'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
Agent-based virtual organization architecture
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Modeling organizational units as modular components of systems of systems
Transactions on Petri nets and other models of concurrency IV
An Agent Based Inter-organizational Collaboration Framework: OperA+
WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Evaluating the feasibility of method engineering for the creation of agent-oriented methodologies
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Bridging the gap between agent-oriented design and implementation using MDA
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
A design process for adaptive behavior of situated agents
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
A formal approach to design and reuse agent and multiagent models
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
A formal approach to model multiagent interactions using the b formal method
ISSADS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advanced Distributed Systems
Model driven development of multi-agent systems
ECMDA-FA'06 Proceedings of the Second European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
Engineering organization-based multiagent systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Developing and evaluating a generic metamodel for MAS work products
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Agent roles, qua individuals and the counting problem
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Roles, players and adaptable organizations
Applied Ontology - Roles, an interdisciplinary perspective
An ontological analysis of the notion of community in the RM-ODP enterprise language
Computer Standards & Interfaces
HoloJade: A Role Based Holonic Extension for JADE
International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems
Agent-Based Multi-organizational Interaction Design: A Case Study of the Dutch Railway System
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
On the use of a domain-specific modeling language in the development of multiagent systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Societies need patterned behavior to exist. Large-scale agent societies may contain a diversity of agents, each with differing abilities and functionalities. When such an agent system is given a task, it must dynamically muster together a group of agents that collectively have the capability to accomplish the task. To do this, the agent society needs to be able to understand its agents and their potential interactions. This paper contains a proposed superstructure specification that defines the user-level constructs required to model agents, their roles and their groups. These modeling constructs provide the basic foundational elements required in multi-agent systems to foster dynamic group formation and operation. As agent systems scale beyond the point where an individual organization can track and control their behavior, the use of these concepts within the society will facilitate dynamic, controlled, task-oriented group formation. This in turn will enhance the predictability, reliability and stability of the agent system as a whole, as well as facilitating the analysis of both group and system behavior.