Oversight of reorganization in massive multiagent systems

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With computer systems becoming more sophisticated, there is a need to have a highlevel mechanism that is able to control these systems as a whole. Some of these systems are multiagent systems that are highly adaptable in a constantly changing environment. This thesis focuses one such approach; an organization-based system to designing and controlling agents. OMACS is designed to allow multiagen...

An Investigation of Reorganization Algorithms

Organization-based multiagent systems are designed to be highly adaptable systems. These systems are able to adapt themselves to changes that occur in the environment. One of the ways to achieve adaptability is through reorganization. Currently, there are a number of organization models that achieve adaptability with reorganization. This paper looks at how reorganization might occur for the Org...

A cost-oriented reorganization reasoning for multiagent systems organization transitions

Current trends in the Multiagent Systems (MAS) research community, encourage to provide models able to define organizations that can dynamically be adapted according to changes in the environment or in the organization specification. This dynamic adaptation involves modifications in the structure and behavior of a MAS, such as adding, removing or substituting components, that are done while the...

R-COM-MTDP: Comparing and Forming Plans for Team Formation in Multiagent Systems

Team formation, i.e., allocating agents to roles within a team or subteams of a team, and the reorganization of a team upon team member failure or arrival of new tasks are critical aspects of teamwork. Despite significant progress, research in multiagent team formation and reorganization has failed to provide a rigorous analysis of the computational complexities of the approaches proposed or th...

Massive: software engineering for multiagent systems