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

Authors: Sims, Mark; Corkill, Daniel; and Lesser, Victor
Title: Separating Domain and Coordination Knowledge 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 AAAI-04 Workshop on Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice, pp. 1 - 7
Location: San Jose, California
Publisher: AAAI Press, California
Date: July 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 Knowledge in Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation. Proceedings of the AAAI-04 Workshop on Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice, AAAI Press, California, pp. 1-7. July 2004. A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here
bibtex: 
@inproceedings{Sims-381,
  author    = "Mark Sims and Daniel Corkill and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Separating Domain and Coordination Knowledge in
               Multi-Agent Organizational Design and
               Instantiation}",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the AAAI-04 Workshop on Agent
               Organizations: Theory and Practice",
  publisher = "AAAI Press, California",
  pages     = "1-7",
  month     = "July",
  year      = "2004",
  address   = "San Jose, California",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/381",
}