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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]
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.[link]
BibTeX
@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. }
}
