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| AUTHOR: |
Sachin Kamboj and Keith S. Decker
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| TITLE: |
Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments
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| ABSTRACT: |
Organizations are an important basis for coordination
in multiagent systems. However, there is no best way
to organize and all ways of organizing are not
equally effective. Attempting to optimize an
organizational structure depends strongly on
environmental features including problem
characteristics, available resources, and agent
capabilities. If the environment is dynamic, the
environmental conditions or the problem task
structure may change over time. This precludes the
use of static, design-time generated, organizational
structures in such systems. On the other hand, for
many real environments, the problems are not totally
unique either: certain characteristics and
conditions change slowly, if at all, and these can
have an important effect in creating stable
organizational structures. Organizational-Self Design (OSD) has been proposed as an approach for constructing suitable organizational structures at run-time. We extend the existing OSD approach to include worth-oriented domains, model other resources in addition to only processor resources and build in robustness into the organization. We then evaluate our approach against the contract-net approach and show that our OSD agents perform better, are more efficient, and more flexible to changes in the environment. |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Organizational-Self Design, Task and Resource Allocation
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| PUBLICATION: |
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007)
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| DATE: |
May, 2007
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| SOURCES: |
PDF: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~kamboj/pubs/kamboj.aamas.07.pdf
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| PAGES: |
1220--1227
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| BIBTEX: |
@article{kamboj.aamas.07, Author = {Sachin Kamboj and Keith S. Decker}, Title = {Organizational Self-Design in Semi-dynamic Environments}, Month = {May}, Year = {2007}, Keywords = {Organizational-Self Design, Task and Resource Allocation}, Pages = {1220--1227}, Journal = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007)}, } |
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