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 system is running and without bringing it down [4]. The process that changes an organization into a new one is commonly known as reorganization [5]. Most existing approaches for reorganization in MAS define adaptation processes due to organizational changes. Some of these approaches propose solutions for reorganization when changes prevent the organization from satisfying current goals (such as when an agent leaves the organization) [3], other approaches focus reorganization as a process triggered by the domain [11], but most of current approaches focus reorganization for achieving better utility [6, 10, 9].