Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models

Virginia Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781605662565

EISBN13: 9781605662572

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5

Description:

Organizational design plays a critical role in the development of larger and more complex multi-agent systems (MAS). As systems grow to include hundreds or thousands of agents, those in the field must move from an agent-centric view of coordination and control to an organization-centric one.

The Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models brings together views and approaches from different communities including MAS, computational organizational simulation, social simulation, organizational theory, and cognitive science, to present the intersections of the different topics. Containing chapters by renowned international authors, this book provides a comprehensive volume on the state-of-the-art on formal semantic models and practical applications for dynamic formalisms of agent organizations.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Agent-based human team support
Artificial institutions in the event calculus
Autonomous agents adopting organizational rules
Dynamic specifications for norm-governed systems
Flexible and robust agent interactions
Framework for dynamic agent organizations
Interactions between organizational networks
Methodologies and frameworks for agent organizations
Modeling dimensions for agent organizations
Organization modeling and analysis
Organizational Dynamics
Organizational self-design in worth-oriented domains
Personal assistants for human organizations
Petri net based model for team monitoring
Programming language for normative multi-agent systems
Role of organization in agent systems

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This book provides an overview of current work in agent organizations, from several perspectives and focusing on different aspects of the organizational spectrum. It is the hope that the work presented here will provoke additional thought, research attention and concern for the concept of organization in and for multi-agent systems.

– Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

This work represents the maturation of the last 50 years of research on applying models of human organizations to inform an understanding of artificial organizations.

– Book News Inc. (June 2009)

Virginia Dignum received a PhD in Computer Science from the Utrecht University (the Netherlands). Before joining academia in 2003, she worked in consultancy and system development for more than 12 years. Her current research focuses on agent based models of organizations, in particular in the dynamic aspects of organizations, and the applicability of agent organizations to knowledge management. She participates and leads several national and EU-projects, and has more than 50 published articles. She organized several international workshops, was treasurer of AAMAS 2005 and is vice-chair of the Belgian-Dutch AI Association.

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