Organizational design plays a critical role in the development of larger and more complex multi-agent systems (MAS). As systems grow to include hundreds or thousands of agents, those in the field must move from an agent-centric view of coordination and control to an organization-centric one.
The Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models brings together views and approaches from different communities including MAS, computational organizational simulation, social simulation, organizational theory, and cognitive science, to present the intersections of the different topics. Containing chapters by renowned international authors, this book provides a comprehensive volume on the state-of-the-art on formal semantic models and practical applications for dynamic formalisms of agent organizations. This title offers: 23 authoritative contributions by over 50 of the world's leading experts on multi-agent systems from 11 countries; comprehensive coverage of each specific topic, highlighting recent trends and describing the latest advances in the field; more than 880 references to existing literature and research on multi-agent systems; a compendium of over 150 key terms with detailed definitions. This title is organized by topic and indexed, making it a convenient method of reference for all IT/IS scholars and professionals. It features cross-referencing of key terms, figures, and information pertinent to multi-agent systems and free institution-wide access to the online version with the purchase of the print publication.
Author(s): Virginia Dignum
Edition: 1
Publisher: Information Science Publishing
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 631
City: Hershey
Title......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
List of Contributors......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 11
Foreword......Page 21
Preface......Page 23
Acknowledgment......Page 27
The Role of Organization in Agent Systems......Page 30
Modelling Dimensions for Agent Organizations......Page 47
Towards an Integral Approach of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems......Page 80
OMACS:A Framework for Adaptive, Complex Systems......Page 105
Hermes: Designing Flexible and Robust Agent Interactions......Page 134
A Formal Framework for Organization Modeling and Analysis......Page 170
Describing Agent Societies: A Declarative Semantics......Page 201
Structural Aspects of Organizations......Page 219
A Logic for Agent Organizations......Page 249
Grounding Organizations in the Minds of the Agents......Page 271
Modelling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations......Page 292
Communications forAgent-Based Human Team Support......Page 314
Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules......Page 343
Specifying Artificial Institutions in the Event Calculus......Page 364
Verifying Organizations Regulated by Institutions......Page 396
A Programming Language for Normative Multi-Agent Systems......Page 426
A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model......Page 448
A Framework for Dynamic Agent Organizations......Page 475
Dynamic Specifications for Norm-Governed Systems......Page 489
Interactions Between Formal and Informal Organizational Networks......Page 509
Personal Assistants for Human Organizations......Page 543
Organizational Self-Design in Worth-Oriented Domains......Page 570
A Formal Petri Net Based Modelfor Team Monitoring......Page 597
About the Contributors......Page 620
Index......Page 628
