Coordinating activities and change: An event-driven architecture for situated MAS

Mariani, Stefano; Omicini, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2014.10.006

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“…Indeed, several methodologies for designing MASs have been discussed in the literature [1][2][3][4]6,7] and, correspondingly, different agent platforms [5,[8][9][10][11] have been proposed as technological means for practically implementing distributed applications. As discussed in Section 2, most of these design methodologies and platforms adopt the organizational metaphor as a way for distributing and coordinating agents.…”

Section: Impact and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Multiagent systems (MASs) allow tackling this problem by providing modeling, like [1][2][3][4][5], development approaches, like [6,7], and frameworks, like [8][9][10][11]. Broadly speaking, such solutions represent software components as goal-oriented, autonomous agents, which act in a shared environment and need to coordinate so as to achieve their goals [12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT

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Abstract:This work studies how the notion of accountability can play a key role in the design and realization of distributed systems that are open and that involve autonomous agents that should harmonize their own goals with the organizational goals. The socio-technical systems that support the work inside human companies and organizations are examples of such systems. The approach that is proposed in order to pursue this purpose is set in the context of multiagent systems organizations, and relies on an explicit specification of relationships among the involved agents for capturing who is accountable to whom and for what. Such accountability relationships are created along with the agents' operations and interactions in a shared environment. In order to guarantee accountability as a design property of the system, a specific interaction protocol is suggested. Properties of this protocol are verified, and a case study is provided consisting of an actual implementation. Finally, we discuss the impact on real-world application domains and trace possible evolutions of the proposal.

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confidence: 99%

Computational Accountability in MAS Organizations with ADOPT

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“…As a result, since all events are uniformly represented through the same general event model, coordination artefacts can be used to deal with both social and situated dependencies, governing every sorts of interaction through the same set of coordination abstractions, languages, and mechanisms [17]thus enforcing conceptual integrity. Then, coordination artefacts provide a specific computational model for dealing with event observation, manipulation, and coordination-which should make life easier for programmers and engineers.…”

Section: Ebs and Mas: The Role Of Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, this suggests that coordination -in charge of managing dependencies [16] -could be used to deal with both forms of dependency in a uniform way; so, also, that coordination artefacts could be exploited to handle both social and situated interaction [17].…”

Section: Mas As Coordinated Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%