Publication - Separating Domain and Coordination in Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation

Authors: Sims, Mark; Corkill, Daniel; and Lesser, Victor
Title: Separating Domain and Coordination in Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation
Abstract: Organizational design and instantiation is the process that accepts a set of organizational goals, performance requirements, agents, and resources and assigns responsibilities and roles to each agent. We present a prescriptive organizational design and instantiation process for multi-agent systems. An important aspect of our approach is the separation of application-specific organizational issues from more generic organizational coordination mechanisms. We describe our model of organizational design and our search process. We also present example organizations generated by our automated system for the distributed sensor network domain under different environmental characteristics and performance requirements.
Keywords: ANTs, Coalition Formation, Coordination, Multi-Agent Systems, Organizational Design
Publication: Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), pp. 155 - 161
Location: Beijing, China
Date: September 2004
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Notes: A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here
Reference: Sims, Mark; Corkill, Daniel; and Lesser, Victor. Separating Domain and Coordination in Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004), pp. 155-161. September 2004. A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here
bibtex: 
@inproceedings{Sims-357,
  author    = "Mark Sims and Daniel Corkill and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Separating Domain and Coordination in Multi-Agent
               Organizational Design and Instantiation}",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on
               Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004)",
  pages     = "155-161",
  month     = "September",
  year      = "2004",
  address   = "Beijing, China",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/357",
}