Designing Multi-Agent System Organisations for Flexible Runtime Behaviour

Formalising Multi-Agent Organisations

Agent oriented software engineering is seen as the approach taken object oriented approaches one step ahead. The design of agent systems is based on three fundamental perspectives: the functional, the interactional and the organisational perspective. The organisation perspective becomes a central design issue if the number of agents is large or the environment is unstable. While the functional ...

A Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations

Designing a Multi-Agent Portfolio Management System

The voluminous and readily available information on the Internet has given rise to exploration of Intelligent Agent technology for accessing, filtering, evaluating and integrating information. In contrast to most current research that has investigated single-agent approaches, we are developing a collection of multiple agents that team up on demand, depending on the user, the task and the situat...

RAMASD: a semi-automatic method for designing agent organisations

Designing realistic multi-agent systems is a complex process, which involves specifying not only the functionality of individual agents, but also the authority relationships and lines of communication existing among them. In other words, designing a multi-agent system refers to designing an agent organisation. Existing methodologies follow a wide variety of approaches to designing agent organis...

Multi-Agent System Development: Design, Runtime, and Analysis

Dynamic and unexpected events are defining characteristics of numerous application domains. These environments often require decision-makers to solve many problems with insufficient time and resources. To effectively assess options, decision-makers require situation analysis and decision-support tools that model the dynamism of these environments to make rapid, robust decisions. Autonomous agen...