Publication - Analyzing, Modeling and Predicting Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network
Authors: | Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor | ||||
Title: | Analyzing, Modeling and Predicting Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network | ||||
Abstract: | The organizational design of a distributed system defines how entities act and interact to achieve local and global objectives. We describe how a system employing different types of organizational techniques has been used to address the challenges posed by a distributed sensor network environment. The high-level, multi-agent architecture of this real-world system is given in detail, and we provide empirical results demonstrating the effects the organization has on the system�s performance across several different metrics. As with any design, the particular approach that is employed makes trade-offs, some of which are obvious and some more subtle. The presence of such trade-offs motivates the need for a better understanding of precisely how the organization influences large and small-scale behaviors. To address this need, we first demonstrate how a collection of analytic models can be developed to predict such effects. This experience is then used to ground the presentation of a more comprehensive, domain-independent organizational modeling language called ODML. The structure and capabilities of ODML are explained through the construction of a unified model of our sensor network organization. We then show that this model provides an accurate prediction of the original empirical results. | ||||
Keywords: | ANTs, Organizational Design | ||||
Publication: | Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, Special Issue on Agents Organizations, Vol: 11, Num: 1, pp. 9 - 30 | ||||
Date: | July 2005 | ||||
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PDF: /Documents/bhorling/jbraz05.pdf |
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Reference: | Horling, Bryan; and Lesser, Victor. Analyzing, Modeling and Predicting Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, Special Issue on Agents Organizations, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 9-30. July 2005. | ||||
bibtex: | @article{Horling-379, author = "Bryan Horling and Victor Lesser", title = "{Analyzing, Modeling and Predicting Organizational Effects in a Distributed Sensor Network}", journal = "Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, Special Issue on Agents Organizations", volume = "11", number = "1", pages = "9-30", month = "July", year = "2005", url = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/379", } |