Multi-Agent Organizations
791MO (Spring 2007)
Fri 9:30-11:30 (CMPS 140)
Multi-Agent Organizations will play a critical role in the development
of larger and more complex agent-based systems. Organization ideas are
also relevant to the design, implementation and on-going management of
large and complex distributed systems. As systems grow to include
hundreds or thousands of agents, we must move from an agent-centric
view of coordination and control to an organization-centric
one. Organizational control is a multilevel control approach in which
organizational goals, roles, and responsibilities are dynamically
developed, distributed, and maintained to serve as guidelines for
making detailed operational control decisions by the individual
agents. By restricting the scope of local control decisions and
communication actions, these organizational guidelines lower the cost
of distributed resource allocation and agent coordination, help limit
inappropriate agent behavior, and reduce the amount of communication
necessary for agents to work together effectively. In this seminar, we
will explore current issues in using designed and emergent
organizational coordination in multi-agent systems. We will survey
classic and recent work in organizational control of multi-agent
systems and computational organization research. Participants will
prepare presentations of papers and lead class discussions.
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