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....the components of organizational structure and organizational entity of the Moise model. 3.1 Roles and missions The concept of role is present in the majority of works dealing with organization in MAS. It is generally de ned as a class of behaviors or services o ered by an agent in the system [18], 7] 11] The detailed characteristics of the role are relegated to the implementation. Conversely, when we nd formal de nitions, these de nitions are often speci c to the considered application [19] 24] With the Moise model, we have developed a speci cation suited to deliberative agents ....

Pattison H.E., Corkill D.D., Lesser V.R., "Instantiating Descriptions of Organizational Structures", in Distributed Articial Intelligence, M. N. Huhns editors, pp. 59-96, 1987.

....is just an observed result by the user of the system. Expression of causal graphs [6, 7] of This work has been partially financed by CNPq, Brazil, grant number 301041 954 and FAPESP, Brazil, grant number 98 03489 9 and an Eurodoc grant from the R egion Rhone Alpes, France. production latices [12, 16], of commitments [4, 3] or dependence relations [5, 19] are examples of explicit representations on which the agents can reason. Orthogonally to these criteria, taking into account how the design of the organization is made, we can further classify MAS organization in a bottom up (we call it ....

.... approach, the organization is the result of computation done at the agent level interacting with the environment and with the others agents [8, 17] In the normative approach, the organization is pre defined by the designer or by the agents in order to constrain the functioning of the agents [16, 3]. As initiated in the ASIC model [2] we envision the modeling of a complex and decentralized system along the four main axes of the Vowels approach [10] agent, interaction, organization and environment. In this context, using a normative approach, we are mainly interested in an explicit ....

Pattison, H.E., Corkill, D.D., Lesser, V.R.: Instantiating Description of Organizational Structures, in Distributed AI I, Huhns M.N. editor, Morgan Kaufman Pitman, (1987), 59--96,

....receiving announcements at a faster pace than they can process ffl how to decide to whom to award a set of tasks In [94] a set of experiments is described which demonstrates that the approach presented in that paper reduces the total transportation costs among autonomous dispatch centers. In [82] a language for specification of complex relations among agents in Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving is described. By using this language, a designer of a system can define hierarchical relationships among the agents and specify to one agent the other agents authority on it. The authority ....

H. Pattison, D. Corkill, and V. Lesser. Instantiating descriptions of organizational structures. In M. N. Huhns, editor, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, pages 59---96. Pitman Publishing/Morgan Kaufman Publishers, San Matheo, CA, 1987.

....of communication and improve overall performance of the organization. 3.3.1. Reconfiguration of Stable Organizations Our previous work on a distributed network monitoring system called Distributed Big Brother (DBB) So and Durfee, 1992) solved the OSD subproblem called the reconfiguration problem (Pattison, Corkill, and Lesser, 1987), where broken organizations were repaired by reallocating the organizational roles and responsibilities to new nodes when the nodes previously responsible for particular tasks are unable to perform them effectively. In other words, reconfiguration involves the first and the fourth of the OSD ....

Pattison, H. Edward, Daniel D. Corkill, and Victor R. Lesser. "Instantiating descriptions of organizational structures," in Michael N. Huhns, editor, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence, chapter 3, pages 59-96. Pitman, 1987.

....be modeled. However, as systems become large and complex, they grow to be difficult to understand, maintain and modify. As systems become more dynamic, their temporal characteristics become more obscure, making understanding and correlating their overall behavior very difficult and time consuming [17, 9,10,11,12,13,14,15]. In agent based approaches, the overall problem is partitioned into a number of smaller, simpler components, which are easier to develop, maintain and extend. This differs from the traditional divide and conquer methodology of object systems. The components derived are able to interact in a ....

PATTISON, H.E., CORKILL, D.D., LESSER, V.R., Instantiating Descriptions of Organizational Structures, Huhns, M., Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Pitman, 1987.

....Self Design The type of organization developed and evaluated for DBB is only effective if all of the roles are filled if a LAN manager disappears, the TOP loses touch with an entire LAN; if a GROUP manager fails then a LAN manager loses track of a subset of hosts. The reconfiguration problem (Pattison, Corkill, and Lesser, 1987), within DBB, thus involves having managers at the various levels monitor each other to detect breakage of the organizational hierarchy, and having the managers reimplement the hierarchy by reassigning roles among themselves to restore the functionality. DBB performs reconfiguration in response to ....

Pattison, H. E., D. D. Corkill and V. R. Lesser (1987), "Instantiating descriptions of organizational structures," in Michael N. Huhns, editor, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence, chapter 3, pages 59-96. Pitman..

....centrally designed will carry out their contracted tasks efficiently and without monitoring. Furthermore, there are situations where an agent in [Sandholm, 1993] is forced to accept a non beneficial contract. We assume on the other hand, that the agents are heterogeneous and self motivated. In [Pattison et al. 1987] a language for specification of complex relations among agents in DPS is described. Using this language, a designer of a system can define hierarchical relationships among the agents and specify to one agent the other agents authority on it. The authority parameter indicates how much emphasis ....

....willingness to help another agent will depend upon the designer s instructions. Pattison et al. suggested an additional mechanism of contracting to the one presented in the Contract Net protocol using focused addressing. This would mean, in addition to broadcasting requests for bids, an agent in [Pattison et al. 1987] has the option of asking for help from another agent directly if it knows that the other agent can help it in its task and knows the other agent s address. In this paper, we also allow both of these addressing methods. Subcontracting in Distributed Problem Solving also appears in the paradigm of ....

H. Pattison, D. Corkill, and V. Lesser. Instantiating descriptions of organizational structures. In Michael N. Huhns, editor, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, pages 59---96. Pitman Publishing/Morgan Kaufman Publishers, San Matheo, CA, 1987.

.... to converge on a solution efficiently (see Chapter 4) E 442 Alternatively, organizational structuring can be viewed as a top down design E 392 problem, where the space of alternative designs can be selectively explored and E 416 candidate designs can be evaluated prior to their implementation (Pattison 1987; E 417 Corkill 1982, So 1996] The use of computational techniques to study, and prescribe, E 408 organizational structures is covered in Chapter 7. E 263 3.4.5 Communication Strategies E 146 Organization structures, or similar knowledge, can provide static guidelines about E 424 who is ....

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