Organizational abstractions for the analysis and design of multi-agent system

  • Authors:
  • Franco Zambonelli;Nicholas R. Jennings;Michael Wooldridge

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The architecture of a multi-agent system can naturally be viewed as a computational organisation. For this reason, we believe organisational abstractions should play a central role in the analysis and design of such systems. To this end, the concepts of agent roles and role models are increasingly being used to specify and design multi-agent systems. However, this is not the full picture. In this paper we introduce three additional organisational concepts--organisational rules, organisational structures, and organisational patterns--that we believe are necessary for the complete specification of computational organisations.We view the introduction of these concepts as a step towards a comprehensive methodology for agent-oriented systems.