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A Proposal for the Modeling of Organizational Structures and Agent Knowledge in MAS

Lawrence Cabac , David Mosteller , and Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus.
A proposal for the modeling of organizational structures and agent knowledge in MAS.
In Moldt (eds.), Modeling and Business Environments MODBE'13, Milano, Italia, June 2013. Proceedings, pages 295-312.  [link]

Abstract: One of the most important tasks when developing multi-agent systems (MAS) is to determine the overall organizational structure of the system. In this paper we present a service-oriented perspective on the organizational structure of MAS and we present modeling techniques and tools for supporting this perspective. We pursue a model-driven approach and a tight integration between various models on the one hand and between the models and the generated code on the other hand. In particular, we combine ontology modeling and organization structure modeling in a way that we can easily generate the initial content of agent knowledge bases in the form of FIPA semantic language (SL) fragments (depending on what positions the agents occupy in the context of the organizational structure). In addition, this allows the agents to reason about and to communicate about their organizational embedding using the same ontology.

BibTeX entry

@InProceedings{Cabac+13a,
  author =  {Cabac, Lawrence and Mosteller, David and
     Wester-Ebbinghaus, Matthias},
  authorplain = {Cabac, Lawrence and Mosteller, David and
       Wester-Ebbinghaus, Matthias},
  title =  {A Proposal for the Modeling of Organizational
                  Structures and Agent Knowledge in {MAS}},
  crossref = {Moldt-e-13},
  pages =  {295--312},
  year =  2013,
  url =   {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-989/paper05b.pdf},
  abstract = {One of the most important tasks when developing
                  multi-agent systems (MAS) is to determine the
                  overall organizational structure of the system. In
                  this paper we present a service-oriented perspective
                  on the organizational structure of MAS and we
                  present modeling techniques and tools for supporting
                  this perspective. We pursue a model-driven approach
                  and a tight integration between various models on
                  the one hand and between the models and the
                  generated code on the other hand.  In particular, we
                  combine ontology modeling and organization structure
                  modeling in a way that we can easily generate the
                  initial content of agent knowledge bases in the form
                  of FIPA semantic language (SL) fragments (depending
                  on what positions the agents occupy in the context
                  of the organizational structure). In addition, this
                  allows the agents to reason about and to communicate
                  about their organizational embedding using the same
                  ontology.}
}

@Proceedings{Moldt-e-13,
  title =  {Modeling and Business Environments MODBE'13,
    Milano, Italia, June 2013.
    Proceedings},
  booktitle =  {Modeling and Business Environments MODBE'13,
    Milano, Italia, June 2013.
    Proceedings},
  editor =  {Moldt, Daniel},
  month =   jun,
  year =   2013,
  volume =   {989},
  series =   {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  ISSN =   {1613-989},
  publisher =    {CEUR-WS.org},
  url =   {http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-989},
  urn =   {urn:nbn:de:0074-989-1}
}

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