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Designing Self-Organising Environments with Agents and Artefacts: A Simulation-Driven Approach
Luca Gardelli, Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini
We propose a methodological approach for tackling the early design stages of self-organising Multiagent Systems (MASs). We adopt an architectural pattern based on the Agents and Artefacts (A&A) metamodel: self-organisation mechanisms are added to an existing environment of artefacts by embedding them into environmental agents. We rely on a three-stage design approach with modelling, simulation and tuning, so as to identify a suitable design of environmental agents and their interaction with artefacts. The main objective is to design a MAS environment providing services that self-organise in response to the unpredictable dynamics of the agents exploiting them.
As a case study, we analyse the problem called collective sorting, a service for decentralised sorting of items in MAS environments that was inspired by social insects' behaviour: the proposed solution features environmental agents and tuple spaces, whose design choices and evaluation have been driven by formal simulations.
Massimo Cossentino, Giancarlo Fortino, Wilma Russo (eds.), Inderscience Publishers
Special Issue on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation
@article{selforg-ijaose2,
Author = {Gardelli, Luca and Viroli, Mirko and Casadei, Matteo and Omicini, Andrea},
Doi = {10.1504/IJAOSE.2008.017314},
Editor = {Cossentino, Massimo and Fortino, Giancarlo and Russo, Wilma},
Issn = {1746-1375},
Issn-Online = {1746-1383},
Journal = {International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering},
Keywords = {collective sorting; self-organisation; emergence; simulation; tuning; patterns; multi-agent systems; MAS design; artefacts; agent-based systems; metamodelling; environmental agents; tuple spaces; social insects},
Note = {Special Issue on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation},
Number = 2,
Pages = {171--195},
Publisher = {Inderscience Publishers},
ScopusId = {2-s2.0-77954568138},
Title = {Designing Self-Organising Environments with Agents and Artefacts: A Simulation-Driven Approach},
Url = {http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=17314},
Url-Pdf = {http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/t062gp2g6j688pvl/fulltext.pdf},
Volume = 2,
Year = 2008}