Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems

Miles, Simon; Joy, Mike; Lück, Michael

doi:10.1007/3-540-39173-8_18

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“…A promising research line could then focus on suitablyformalised coordination abstractions-along with a suitably defined engineering methodology [114]-that could in principle ensure the predictability of given system properties within generally unpredictable coordinated systems-such as complex nature-inspired systems.…”

Section: Predicting Complex Behavioursmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature-Inspired Coordination Models: Current Status and Future Trends

Omicini

2013

ISRN Software Engineering

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Coordination models and languages are meant to provide abstractions and mechanisms to harness the space of interaction as one of the foremost sources of complexity in computational systems. Nature-inspired computing aims at understanding the mechanisms and patterns of complex natural systems in order to bring their most desirable features to computational systems. Thus, the promise of nature-inspired coordination models is to prove themselves fundamental in the design of complex computational systems|such as intelligent, knowledge-intensive, pervasive, adaptive, and self-organising ones. In this paper, we survey the most relevant nature-inspired coordination models in the literature, focussing in particular on tuple-based models, and foresee the most interesting research trends in the field.

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Section: Predicting Complex Behavioursmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature-Inspired Coordination Models: Current Status and Future Trends

Omicini

2013

ISRN Software Engineering

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“…Actual interactions form the behavior of the organization. Even though not all MAS models recognize explicitly these concepts, we feel that by raising these concepts to the status of first-class modeling entities [18], we allow for the specification of open systems, and can describe both emergent and designed organizations. Similar modeling approaches have been advocated in [6,13,23].…”

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Exploring Congruence Between Organizational Structure and Task Performance: A Simulation Approach

Dignum

Sonenberg

2006

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems

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Abstract. Reorganization of the structure of an organization is a crucial issue in multi-agent systems that operate in an open, dynamic environment. Ideally, autonomous agents must be able to evaluate and decide the most appropriate organization given the environment conditions. That is, there is a need for dynamic reorganization of coordination structures. In this paper, we describe how simulation studies could help to determine whether and how reorganization should take place, and present a simulation scenario that can be used to evaluate the congruence, or fit, between organizational structure and task performance. Preliminary results using a simulation environment illustrate how one can explore triggers for reorganization and compare strategies.

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