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From Multi-Agent to Multi-Organization Systems: Utilizing Middleware Approaches

Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus, Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, and Daniel Moldt.
From multi-agent to multi-organization systems: Utilizing middleware approaches.
In Alexander Artikis, Gauthier Picard, and Laurent Vercouter, editors, International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW 08), 2008.

Abstract: Modern software systems share with social organizations the attributes of being large-scale, distributed and heterogeneous systems of systems. The organizational metaphor for software engineering has particularly been adopted in the field of multi-agent systems but not entirely exploited due to an inherent lack of collective levels of action.We propagate a shift from multi-agent to multi-organization systems that we rest upon an organization theoretically inspired reference architecture. We further suggest to utilize agent-oriented technology as a means for realization. We draw upon the wide variety of organizational modelling and middleware approaches and establish a best fit between different approaches and requirements for different architectural levels.

BibTeX entry

@InProceedings{Koehler+08c,
  author =   {Wester-Ebbinghaus, Matthias and K{\"o}hler-Bu{\ss}meier, Michael and Moldt, Daniel},
  title =   {From Multi-Agent to Multi-Organization Systems: Utilizing Middleware Approaches},
  booktitle =   {International Workshop Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW 08)},
  year =  2008,
  editor =  {Alexander Artikis and  Gauthier Picard and Laurent Vercouter},
  annote =   {filename = ESAW2008_ORGAN_Pooling/ESAW2008.tex},
  abstract = {Modern software systems share with social organizations the
  attributes of being large-scale, distributed and heterogeneous systems
  of systems. The organizational metaphor for software engineering has
  particularly been adopted in the field of multi-agent systems but not
  entirely exploited due to an inherent lack of collective levels of action.We
  propagate a shift from multi-agent to multi-organization systems that we
  rest upon an organization theoretically inspired reference architecture.
  We further suggest to utilize agent-oriented technology as a means for
  realization. We draw upon the wide variety of organizational modelling
  and middleware approaches and establish a best fit between different
  approaches and requirements for different architectural levels.}
}

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