An abstract architecture for virtual organizations: The THOMAS approach

Argente, Estefanía; Botti, Vicente; Carrascosa, Carlos; Giret, Adriana; Julián, Vicente; Rebollo, Miguel

doi:10.1007/s10115-010-0349-1

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“…Open systems are characterized by the heterogeneity of their participants, limited trust, individual goals in conflict, and a great probability of disagreement with the specifications [15]. The proposed platform combines virtual organizations of multiagent systems [15][16][17] with information fusion algorithms [8,12,13], which provides great adaptability to changes in the controlled environment and a more efficient usage of the technologies available in that environment. In addition, we propose to integrate the virtual organization within cloud computing environments, providing ubiquitous computation and communication mechanisms, and an adequate environment for the application of intelligent algorithms, which will allow the extraction of knowledge from great volumes of data, as well as the customization of the services offered to the end user.…”

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Self-Organizing Architecture for Information Fusion in Distributed Sensor Networks

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Villarrubia

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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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The management of heterogeneous distributed sensor networks requires new solutions that can address the problem of automatically fusing the information coming from different sources in an efficient and effective manner. In the literature it is possible to find different types of data fusion and information fusion techniques in use today, but it is still a challenge to obtain systems that allow the automation or semiautomation of information processing and fusion. In this paper, we present a multiagent system that based on the organizational theory proposes a new model to automatically process and fuse information in heterogeneous distributed sensor networks. The proposed architecture is applied to a case study for indoor location where information is taken from different heterogeneous sensors.

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Self-Organizing Architecture for Information Fusion in Distributed Sensor Networks

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Villarrubia

et al. 2015

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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“…Figure 3 shows the architecture of the ABC4MAS platform. First, the platform counts on a collaboration environment enacted as a virtual organisation thanks to the THOMAS Platform [5]. When a customer within this collaboration environment issues an order, a new virtual organisation is spawned to service the request.…”

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Infrastructures to Engineer Open Agent Environments by Means of Electronic Institutions

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Rodŕıguez-Aguilar

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Electronic institutions provide a computational analogue of human institutions to engineer open environments in which agents can interact in an autonomous way while complying with the norms of an institution. The purpose of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we lightly survey our research on coordination infrastructures for electronic institutions in the last ten years. On the other hand, we highlight the research challenges in environment engineering that we have tackled during this journey as well as promising research paths for future research on the engineering of open environments for multi-agent systems.

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“…A general overview of the state of the art of agent methodologies regarding these criteria is also presented. Currently, many agent methodologies integrate norms into their metamodels in order to formalise the restrictions on the behaviour of the actors within systems [9,22,28,3]. Most offer formalisations of norms that allow the specification of the consequences of violating a norm.…”

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Evaluating how agent methodologies support the specification of the normative environment through the development process

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Due to the increase in collaborative work and the decentralization of processes in many domains, there is an expanding demand for large-scale, flexible and adaptive software systems to support the interactions of people and institutions distributed in heterogeneous environments. Commonly, these software applications should follow specific regulations meaning the actors using them are bound by rights, duties and restrictions. Since this normative environment determines the final design of the software system, it should be considered as an important issue during the design of the system. Some agentoriented software engineering methodologies deal with the development of normative systems (systems that have a normative environment) by integrating the analysis of the normative environment of a system in the development process. This paper analyses to what extent these methodologies support the analysis and formalisation of the normative environment and highlights some open issues of the topic.

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An abstract architecture for virtual organizations: The THOMAS approach

Cited by 60 publications

References 42 publications

Self-Organizing Architecture for Information Fusion in Distributed Sensor Networks

Self-Organizing Architecture for Information Fusion in Distributed Sensor Networks

Infrastructures to Engineer Open Agent Environments by Means of Electronic Institutions

Evaluating how agent methodologies support the specification of the normative environment through the development process

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