An agent-mediated approach to the support of knowledge sharing in organizations

Dignum, Virginia; Dignum, Frank; Meyer, John‐Jules Ch.

doi:10.1017/s0269888904000244

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“…Prominent agent methodologies have adopted organizations [Demazeau and Costa 1996;Zambonelli et al 2003], logics and languages exist to describe agent organizations [Dignum and Dignum 2011;Hü bner et al 2011], and several researchers have proposed meta-models to model MAS using organizations. Prominent examples are AGR (Agent/Group/Role) [Ferber and Gutknecht 1998], Electronic Institutions (EIs) [Esteva and Rodríguez-Aguilar 2001;Solaz et al 2011], Moise [Hannoun et al 2000;Hü bner 2010], and OperA [Dignum et al 2005].…”

Section: Roles In Business Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Architecture-centric support for adaptive service collaborations

Haesevoets

Weyns

Holvoet

2014

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

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In today's volatile business environments, collaboration between information systems, both within and across company borders, has become essential to success. An efficient supply chain, for example, requires the collaboration of distributed and heterogeneous systems of multiple companies. Developing such collaborativ e applications and building the supporting information systems poses several engineering challenges. A key challenge is to manage the ever growing design complexity. In this article, we argue that software architecture should play a more prominent role in the development of collaborative applications. This can help to better manage design complexity by modularizing collaborations and separating concerns. State of the art solutions, however, often lack proper abstractions for modeling collaborations at architectural level or do not reify these abstractions at detailed design and implementation level. Developers, on the other hand, rely on middleware, business process management, and Web services, techniques that mainly focus on low-level infrastructure.To address the problem of managing the design complexity of collaborative applications, we present Macodo. Macodo consists of three complementary parts: (1) a set of abstractions for modeling adaptive collaborations, (2) a set of architectural v iews, the main contribution of this article, that reify these abstractions at architectural level, and (3) a proof of concept middleware infrastructure that supports the architectural abstractions at design and implementation level. We evaluate the architectural v iews in a controlled experiment. Results show that the use of Macodo can reduce fault density and design complexity, and improve reuse and productivity. The main contributions of this article are illustrated in a supply chain management case.

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Section: Roles In Business Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Architecture-centric support for adaptive service collaborations

Haesevoets

Weyns

Holvoet

2014

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

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“…In this section we present a small overview on how one goes about designing an organization. After identifying that an organization presents the solution to the problem: More details about the methodological steps taken to create organizational models can be found in [7].…”

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OperettA: Organization-Oriented Development Environment

Aldewereld

Dignum

2011

Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems

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Abstract-The increasing complexity of distributed applications requires new modeling and engineering approaches. Such domains require representing the regulating structures explicitly and independently from the acting components (or agents). Organization computational models, based on Organization Theory, have been advocated to specify such systems. In this paper, we present the organizational modeling approach OperA and a graphical environment for the specification and analysis of organizational models, OperettA. OperA provides an expressive way for defining open organizations distinguishing explicitly between the organizational aims, and the agents who act in it.

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“…Methodologies to support the structured development of scenarios are needed, that (1) enable the systematic analysis and incorporation of different perspectives, (2) assess the robustness of insight to the particular way agents and interactions are represented, and (3) guides and interprets results achieved [4]. Due to its strong foundation on organizational perspective, that exactly enables this incorporation of different perspectives, the OperA model is appropriate for the development of organizational models [9]. Therefore, the OperA methodology and framework was chosen for the construction of Organizational Model for NedTrain.…”

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“…A generic methodology to analyze a given domain and determine the type and structure of the agent society that best models that domain is described in [9]. The methodology provides generic facilitation and interaction frameworks for agent societies that implement the functionality derived from the co-ordination model applicable to the problem domain.…”

Section: The Opera Modelmentioning

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Towards Agent-Based Scenario Development for Strategic Decision Support

Mensonides

Huisman²,

Dignum

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Scenario planning is a method for learning about the future by understanding the nature and impact of the most uncertain and important driving forces affecting that future. However, most scenarios, being mostly stories, lack validation, dynamism and fail to acknowledge all relations between actors, activities and resources. In this paper, we propose an agent-based model for scenario development that tackles these problems by specifying scenarios as agent organizations which makes possible the representation of the global organization strategy, and global goals together with the objectives and requirements of different stakeholders. As a concrete example of agent-based scenario planning, the OperA model for agent organizations is used to create a model scenario for NedTrain, a rolling stock maintenance provider in the Netherlands.

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An agent-mediated approach to the support of knowledge sharing in organizations

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Cited by 33 publications

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Architecture-centric support for adaptive service collaborations

Architecture-centric support for adaptive service collaborations

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Towards Agent-Based Scenario Development for Strategic Decision Support

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