The Principle of Immanence in GRID-Multiagent Integrated Systems

Abstract

This position paper proposes to bring together the integration of Grid and MAS with the notion of immanence. On one hand, Grid is known to be an extraordinary infrastructure for coordinating distributed computing resources and Virtual Organisations (VOs). On one other hand MAS interest focusses on complex behaviour of systems of agents. Immanence is a principle that emerges from the internal behaviour of complex systems such as social organisations. Although several existing VO models specify how to manage resource, security policies and communities of users, none of them has considered to tackle the internal self-organisation aspect of the overall system. We propose Agora, a VO model integrated in an experimental collaborative environment platform. Its architecture adopts a novel design approach, modelled as a dynamic system in which the result of agent interactions are fed back into the system structure. Since the global behaviour of such a system emerges from its internal organisation, we place the immanence principle as the main Agora contribution for self-organising Grid VOs.