Exploiting Group Thinking in Organization-Oriented Programming

Although MAS researchers have recently an increased interest in social agency, the explicit representation and exploitation of organizational aspects has not gained much attention. This paper, based on the organizational model proposed in [ ], investigates the organizational programming paradigm. The approach proposed in this paper, in contrast to other approaches, emphasizes on group thinking rather than on coordination. Doing so, specifications are at a conceptually high level of group-behaviour specification and interaction emerges as part of group thinking: There is no need for the specification of agents’ interaction protocols. 15 To show how the organization programming paradigm is applied, the paper describes the implementation of the asynchronous backtracking algorithm used in distributed CSPs.