Applications of Self-Organising Multi-Agent Systems: An Initial Framework for Comparison

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Carole Bernon, Vincent Chevrier, Vincent Hilaire, Paul Marrow
Informatica 30(1), pp. 73–82
gennaio 2006

A lot of work is devoted to formalizing and devising architectures for agents' cooperative behaviour, for coordinating the behaviour of individual agents within groups, as well as to designing agent societies using social laws. However, providing agents with abilities to automatically devise societies so as to form coherent emergent groups that coordinate their behaviour via social laws, is highly challenging. These systems are called self-organised. We are beginning to understand some of the ways in which self-organised agent systems can be devised. In this perspective, this paper provides several examples of multi-agent systems in which self-organisation, based on different mechanisms, is used to solve complex problems. Several criteria for comparison of self-organisation between the different applications are provided.

parole chiave   multi-agent system, self-organisation, applications, software
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book Informatica (Informatica)
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page_white_acrobat Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research II” (numero speciale, 2006) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams
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wrench AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing (01/01/2004–31/01/2006)
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page_white_acrobat A Survey of Programming Languages and Platforms for Multi-Agent Systems (articolo in rivista, 2006) — Rafael H. Bordini, Lars Braubach, Mehdi Dastani, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, João Leite, Gregory O’Hare, Alexander Pokahr, Alessandro Ricci
page_white_acrobat Bio-inspired Mechanisms for Artificial Self-organised Systems (articolo in rivista, 2006) — Jean-Pierre Mano, Christine Bourjot, Gabriel Lopardo, Pierre Glize
page_white_acrobat Issues in Multiagent Resource Allocation (articolo in rivista, 2006) — Yann Chevaleyre, Paul E. Dunne, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Michel Lemaître, Nicolas Maudet, Julian Padget, Steve Phelps, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Paulo Sousa
page_white_acrobat On Self-Organising Mechanisms from Social, Business and Economic Domains (articolo in rivista, 2006) — Salima Hassas, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Anthony Karageorgos, Cristiano Castelfranchi
page_white_acrobat The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research – Part 2 (editoriale/introduzione/prefazione, 2006) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams
page_white_acrobat Self-Organisation and Emergence in MAS: An Overview (articolo in rivista, 2006) — Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Anthony Karageorgos