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An analysis and design concept for self-organization in holonic multi-agent systems
- IN ESOA’06, WORKSHOP OF AAMAS’06
, 2007
"... Holonic Multi-Agent Systems (HMAS) are a convenient way to engineer complex and open systems. HMAS are based upon selfsimilar entities, called holons, which define an organizational structure called holarchy. An open issue of HMAS is to give holons means of selforganization to satisfy their goals. ..."
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Holonic Multi-Agent Systems (HMAS) are a convenient way to engineer complex and open systems. HMAS are based upon selfsimilar entities, called holons, which define an organizational structure called holarchy. An open issue of HMAS is to give holons means of selforganization to satisfy their goals. Our works focus on modeling and engineering of complex systems using a holonic organizational approach. This paper introduces the concept of capacity as the description of agents know-how. This concept allows the representation and reasoning about agents know-hows. Even more, it encourages a reusable modeling and provides agents with means to self-organize.
Holonic Modeling of Environments for Situated Multi-Agent Systems
"... Abstract. In a Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) special atten-tion must go to the analysis, modeling and implementation of the en-vironment. Environments for simulation of real world problems may be complex. Seeing the environment as a monolithic structure only reduces our capacity to handle larg ..."
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Abstract. In a Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) special atten-tion must go to the analysis, modeling and implementation of the en-vironment. Environments for simulation of real world problems may be complex. Seeing the environment as a monolithic structure only reduces our capacity to handle large scale, real-wold environments. In order to support this type of environments, we propose the use of an holonic per-spective to represent the environment and the agents. In our approach, agents and environment are represented by holons. The environment de-fines an holarchy. Agents belong to a specific holon in this holarchy fol-lowing their needs. Key words: holonic modeling, environment of MAS, simulation 1
self-organization in Holonic Multi-Agent Systems
"... Abstract. Holonic Multi-Agent Systems (HMAS) are a convenient way to engineer complex and open systems. HMAS are based upon self-similar entities, called holons, which define an organizational structure called holarchy. An open issue of HMAS is to give holons means of self-organization to satisfy th ..."
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Abstract. Holonic Multi-Agent Systems (HMAS) are a convenient way to engineer complex and open systems. HMAS are based upon self-similar entities, called holons, which define an organizational structure called holarchy. An open issue of HMAS is to give holons means of self-organization to satisfy their goals. Our works focus on modeling and engineering of complex systems using a holonic organizational approach. This paper introduces the concept of capacity as the description of agents know-how. This concept allows the representation and reasoning about agents know-hows. Even more, it encourages a reusable modeling and provides agents with means to self-organize. 1
Modeling Holonic Systems with an Organizational approach
"... Complex Systems often exhibit hierarchical structures and multiple levels of abstraction, and MultiAgent Systems, even if they have proved their adequacy to model such systems, still remains in their larger part at one or two abstraction levels. It seems uncertain in this context that MAS will be ab ..."
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Complex Systems often exhibit hierarchical structures and multiple levels of abstraction, and MultiAgent Systems, even if they have proved their adequacy to model such systems, still remains in their larger part at one or two abstraction levels. It seems uncertain in this context that MAS will be able to catch efficiently the whole complexity of such systems. Holonic Multi-Agent Systems and their intrinsic hierarchical structure appears as a natural alternative. In this paper we propose a generic framework for HMAS modeling based upon an organizational approach. The means to model a compound holon using organizations and how to conciliate in a generic way the holonic structure with problem-dependent behaviors, are detailed. Different aspects related to the holon dynamics: holon creation, members integration and self-organization are also studied. 1
