An Open Architecture for Service-Oriented Virtual Organizations

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

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14843-9_8

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“…As a future work, we are working on the introduction of artifacts into the THOMAS architecture [22], so then being able to develop artifacts not only from a design point of view, but also carrying out the implementation of this important enhancement of a MAS. Moreover, a library of artifacts, defining patterns for Artifacts for Organizational Mechanisms that facilitate their development will be implemented.…”

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Artifacting and Regulating the Environment of a Virtual Organization

Esparcia

Centeno

Hermoso

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Tools With Artificial Intelligence

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This work presents an extension of the Environment Dimension of the Virtual Organization Model, which is an Organization Modeling Language to define OrganizationCentered Multi-Agent Systems. This extension allows this model to regulate the environment by supporting artifacts for organizational mechanisms, an approach based on the Agents & Artifacts conceptual framework. The three main entities of this framework are agents, artifacts and workspaces, which have been integrated in this work inside the Virtual Organization Model. Additionally, this paper presents an application to the health care setting and an analysis of the related work on this topic.

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Artifacting and Regulating the Environment of a Virtual Organization

Esparcia

Centeno

Hermoso

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Tools With Artificial Intelligence

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“…THOMAS is based on the idea that no internal agents exist and architectural services are offered as web services. As a result, the final product is wholly independent of any internal agent platform and fully addressed for open multiagent systems [21].…”

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PANGEA – Platform for Automatic coNstruction of orGanizations of intElligent Agents

Zato

Villarrubia

Sánchez

et al. 2012

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing

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Abstract. This article presents PANGEA, an agent platform to develop open multiagent systems, specifically those including organizational aspects such as virtual agent organizations. The platform allows the integral management of organizations and offers tools to the end user. Additionally, it includes a communication protocol based on the IRC standard, which facilitates implementation and remains robust even with a large number of connections. The introduction of a CommunicationAgent and a Sniffer make it possible to offer web services for the distributed control of interaction.

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“…In our case, a library for artifacts for organizational mechanisms will be defined. Moreover, the presented artifacts will be implemented using THOMAS 18 in order to evaluate their performance with this framework, which is oriented to develop Virtual Organizations. …”

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Enhancing Mas Environments With Organizational Mechanisms

Esparcia

Argente

Centeno

et al. 2011

Int. J. Artif. Intell. Tools

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This work proposes a new coordination system for the environment of a Multi-Agent System by merging the features from two important contributions to this field of research, Organizational Mechanisms and Artifacts. Organizational mechanisms can be introduced into a Multi-Agent System with the aim of influencing the behavior of agents populating it to achieve their goals in a proper way. In this paper, we propose to model organizational mechanisms by means of artifacts, which are non-proactive entities used by agents. Artifacts were presented within the Agents & Artifacts conceptual framework, and that present good advantages for coordinating agents' environments. We put forward a formal model that defines how organizational mechanisms can be designed by using artifacts theory. We validate the approach by presenting a case study focused on a real health care domain problem. Additionally, the Artifacts for Organizational Mechanisms are compared with some different proposed artifacts.

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An Open Architecture for Service-Oriented Virtual Organizations

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Artifacting and Regulating the Environment of a Virtual Organization

Artifacting and Regulating the Environment of a Virtual Organization

PANGEA – Platform for Automatic coNstruction of orGanizations of intElligent Agents

Enhancing Mas Environments With Organizational Mechanisms

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