Organisational adaptation of multi-agent systems in a peer-to-peer scenario

Jordi Campos, Marc Esteva, Maite López-Sánchez, Javier Morales, Maria Salamó
2010 Computing  
Organisations in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have proven to be successful in regulating agent societies. Nevertheless, changes in agents' behaviour or in the dynamics of the environment may lead to a poor fullment of the system's purposes, and so the entire organisation needs to be adapted. In this paper we focus on endowing the organisation with adaptation capabilities, instead of expecting agents to be capable of adapting the organisation by themselves. We regard this organisational adaptation
more » ... s an assisting service provided by what we call the Assistance Layer. Our generic Two Level Assisted MAS Architecture (2-LAMA) incorporates such a layer. We empirically evaluate this approach by means of an agent-based simulator we have developed for
doi:10.1007/s00607-010-0141-9 fatcat:ub4q2774v5cydh56ysfmax6tjm