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Towards Agent Organizations Interoperability: A Model Driven Engineering Approach

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Author(s):
Coutinho, Luciano R. [1] ; Brandao, Anarosa A. F. [2] ; Boissier, Olivier [3] ; Sichman, Jaime S. [2]
Total Authors: 4
Affiliation:
[1] Univ Fed Maranhao UFMA, Dept Informat DEINF, Ave Portugueses 1966, BR-65080805 Bacanga, Sao Luis - Brazil
[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Escola Politecn EP, Lab Tecn Inteligentes LTI, Ave Prof Luciano Gualberto 158, Travessa 3, BR-05508010 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] ENS Mines St Etienne, Dept Comp Sci & Intelligent Syst, 158 Cours Fauriel, F-42023 St Etienne 2 - France
Total Affiliations: 3
Document type: Journal article
Source: APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL; v. 9, n. 12 JUN 2 2019.
Web of Science Citations: 1
Abstract

In the research and development of multiagent systems (MAS), one of the central issues is how to conciliate the autonomy of the agents with a desirable and stable behavior of the MAS as a whole. Agent organizations have been proposed as a suitable metaphor for engineering social order in MAS. However, this emphasis has led to several proposals of organizational models for MAS design, thus creating an organizational interoperability problem: How to ensure that agents, possibly designed to work with different organizational models, could interact and collectively solve problems? In this paper, we have adopted techniques from Model Driven Engineering to handle this problem. In particular, we propose an abstract and integrated view of the main concepts that have been used to specify agent organizations, based on several organizational models present in the literature. We apply this integrated view to design MAORI, a model-based architecture for organizational interoperability. We present a MAORI application example that has shown that our approach is computationally feasible, enabling agents endowed with heterogeneous organizational models to cooperatively solve a problem. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 10/20620-5 - Interoperability issues related to social and organizational reasoning in open multiagent systems
Grantee:Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
FAPESP's process: 14/03297-7 - Engineering multiagent systems: a research on development issues
Grantee:Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão
Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research