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Automatic Generation of Distributed Team Formation Algorithms from Organizational Models

Michael Köhler-Bußmeier and Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus.
Automatic generation of distributed team formation algorithms from organizational models.
In Jomi Hübner and Olivier Boissier, editors, Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN'08, 2008.  [link]

Abstract: Software systems are subject to ever increasing complexity and in need of efficient structuring. The concept of organization as an expressive and abstract real-world reference presents a promising starting point. Organizational concepts have particularly been studied within the multi-agent systems community. However, there exists a conceptual gap between organizational specifications and their multi-agent implementation. We address this problem by presenting an integrated approach to formalize organizational models with Petri nets and to directly deploy these specifications in a multi-agent system. The operational semantics of Petri nets establishes a close link between organizational specification and deployment that eases system development and maintenance. As an important example, we are able to describe the formation of multi-agent teams in an organizational scenario in terms of Petri net dynamics.

BibTeX entry

@InProceedings{Koehler+08b,
  author =  {K{\"o}hler-Bu{\ss}meier, Michael  and Wester-Ebbinghaus, Matthias},
  title =   {Automatic Generation of Distributed Team Formation Algorithms from Organizational Models},
  booktitle =   {Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN'08},
  year =  2008,
  url={http://www.emse.fr/esaw08/submissions/esaw2008_submission_19.pdf},
  editor =  {Jomi H{\"u}bner and  Olivier Boissier},
  annote =  {filename = COIN2008_orga/COIN_orga.tex},
  abstract = { Software systems are subject to ever increasing
                  complexity and in need of efficient structuring. The
                  concept of organization as an expressive and
                  abstract real-world reference presents a promising
                  starting point. Organizational concepts have
                  particularly been studied within the multi-agent
                  systems community. However, there exists a
                  conceptual gap between organizational specifications
                  and their multi-agent implementation. We address
                  this problem by presenting an integrated approach to
                  formalize organizational models with Petri nets and
                  to directly deploy these specifications in a
                  multi-agent system. The operational semantics of
                  Petri nets establishes a close link between
                  organizational specification and deployment that
                  eases system development and maintenance. As an
                  important example, we are able to describe the
                  formation of multi-agent teams in an organizational
                  scenario in terms of Petri net dynamics.}
}

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