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Structure in Threes: Modelling Organization-Oriented Software Architectures Built Upon Multi-Agent Systems

Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus and Daniel Moldt.
Structure in threes: Modelling organization-oriented software architectures built upon multi-agent systems.
In Lin Padgham, David C. Parkes, Jörg Müller, and Simon Parsons, editors, 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008, Volume 3, pages 1307-1310. IFAAMAS, 2008.  [link]

Abstract: Software systems are subject to increasing complexity and in need of efficient structuring. Multi-agent system research has come up with approaches for an organization-oriented comprehension of software systems. However, when it comes to the collective level of organizational analysis, multi-agent system technology lacks clear development concepts. To overcome this problem while preserving the earnings of the agent-oriented approach, this paper propagates a shift in perspective from the individual agent to the organization as the core metaphor of software engineering targeting at very large systems. According to different levels of analysis drawn from organization theory, different types of organizational units are incorporated into a reference architecture for organization-oriented software systems.

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{Wester+08a,
  author={Wester-Ebbinghaus, Matthias and Moldt, Daniel},
  title={Structure in Threes: Modelling Organization-Oriented Software Architectures Built Upon Multi-Agent Systems},
  editor={Lin Padgham and David C. Parkes and J{\"o}rg M{\"u}ller and Simon Parsons},
  booktitle={7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Estoril, Portugal,
               May 12-16, 2008, Volume 3},
  publisher = {IFAAMAS},
  year      = {2008},
  url        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1402821.1402858},
  pages     = {1307-1310},
  abstract={Software systems are subject to increasing complexity and
  in need of efficient structuring. Multi-agent system research
  has come up with approaches for an organization-oriented
  comprehension of software systems. However, when it comes
  to the collective level of organizational analysis, multi-agent
  system technology lacks clear development concepts. To
  overcome this problem while preserving the earnings of the
  agent-oriented approach, this paper propagates a shift in
  perspective from the individual agent to the organization
  as the core metaphor of software engineering targeting at
  very large systems. According to different levels of analysis
  drawn from organization theory, different types of organizational
units are incorporated into a reference architecture
  for organization-oriented software systems.}
}

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