Publication - Separating Application-Specific and Organizational Coordination Issues during Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation

Authors: Sims, Mark; Corkill, Daniel; and Lesser, Victor
Title: Separating Application-Specific and Organizational Coordination Issues during Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation
Abstract: The ability to create effective multi-agent organizations is key to the development of larger, more diverse multi-agent systems. Organizational control provides long-term organizational goals, roles, and responsibilities as guidelines for each agent. 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 and provide examples of how it operates. We also present example organizations generated by our automated system for the distributed sensor network domain under different environmental characteristics and performance requirements.
Keywords: Agent Control, Coalition Formation, Coordination, Multi-Agent Systems, Organizational Design
Publication: UMass Computer Science Technical Report 04-98, Num: 04-98
Publisher: University of Massachusetts
Date: November 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 Application-Specific and Organizational Coordination Issues during Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation. UMass Computer Science Technical Report 04-98, Number 04-98, University of Massachusetts. November 2004. A significantly revised version of the paper can be found here
bibtex: 
@techreport{Sims-382,
  author    = "Mark Sims and Daniel Corkill and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Separating Application-Specific and Organizational
               Coordination Issues during Multi-Agent
               Organizational Design and Instantiation}",
  number    = "04-98",
  institution = "University of Massachusetts",
  type      = "Computer Science Technical Report",
  month     = "November",
  year      = "2004",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/382",
}