An Organisation Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems based on Agent Coordination Contexts

Mirko Viroli, Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini

We present an organisation infrastructure for open Multi-Agent Systems built upon a role-based access control model (RBAC), which provides agents with means to enable and control actions toward the other entities in the MAS (agents and resources).

In particular, an Agent Coordination Context (ACC) is created and assigned to an agent as it enters the MAS, which acts as a sort of private interface for the agent towards the environment: any agent action is thereafter enabled and controlled by that ACC, which prevents those behaviours that are incorrect with respect to the role(s) played by the agent. To this end, each role is assigned a policy that flexibly specifies possible/allowed actions and perceptions over time.

4th International Joint Conference "Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems" (AAMAS 2005), pages 1189-1190, 25-29 July 2005.
Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Sven Koenig, Sarit Kraus, Munindar P. Singh, Michael Wooldridge (eds.), ACM, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Poster

@inproceedings{acc-aamas05,
	Address = {Utrecht, The Netherlands},
	Author = {Viroli, Mirko and Ricci, Alessandro and Omicini, Andrea},
	Booktitle = {4th International Joint Conference ``Autonomous Agents \& Multi-Agent Systems'' (AAMAS 2005)},
	Doi = {10.1145/1082473.1082687},
	Editor = {Dignum, Frank and Dignum, Virginia and Koenig, Sven and Kraus, Sarit and Singh, Munindar P. and Wooldridge, Michael},
	Isbn = {1-59593-094-9},
	Month = {25--29~} # jul,
	Note = {Poster},
	Pages = {1189--1190},
	Publisher = {ACM},
	ScopusId = {2-s2.0-33644791018},
	Title = {An Organisation Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems based on Agent Coordination Contexts},
	Url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1082687},
	Volume = 3,
	Year = 2005}