International Workshop on
Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems:
Theories and Applications (RASTA'02)
Abstract for
- 9:30 - 10:30 (second presentation)
- An Organisational-oriented Model for Agent Societies
Virginia Dignum, John-Jules-Meyer, Hans Wiegand, and Frank Dignum
The development of multi-agent systems calls for modeling primitives to represent concepts that characterize multi-agent systems, such as communication, interaction and roles that are usually not provided by (single) agent languages. Furthermore, multi agent models for organizations must incorporate the collective characteristics of the domain. We propose a conceptual framework for agent societies that incorporates the specification of global organizational characteristics with individual aims and capabilities. The framework consists of three interrelated models. The organizational model describes agent societies in terms of roles, constraints and interactions rules. The social model populates the society with actual agents that realize the objectives of the society by enacting role(s) described in the organizational model. Finally, the interaction model describes the interaction commitments between those agents. The interdependencies between models are described by means of contracts. Contract rules specify commitments between agents and society concerning role enactment, and commitments between agents concerning interaction.
Daniel Moldt
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