From Social Designs to Multi-Agent Architectures
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: A Multi-Agent System (MAS) is an organization of coordinated autonomous agents that interact in order to achieve common goals. Considering real world social organizations as an analogy, this paper proposesarchitectural styles and design patterns for MAS which adopt concepts from social theories. The styles are intended to represent a macro-level architecture of a MAS in terms of actor, goal and actor dependency and are evaluated with respect to software quality attributes. At a micro-\nlevel, social patterns give a finer-grain description of the MAS architecture and define how goals assigned to agents will be fulfilled. They are modeled within a conceptual framework analyzing them from five points of view: social, intentional, structural, communicational and dynamic. An e-business example illustrates our purpose.
Institution: University College London
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1795465469