AASMAn: An adaptive organisational policy for a society of market-based agents |
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Authors: | S Shaheen Fatima and G Uma |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Computer Science & Engineering, M J College of Engineering, Rd. No. 3, Banjara Hills, 500 034 Hyderabad, India;(2) D E Shaw India Software Pvt Ltd, G Pullareddy Building, 500 016 Begumpet, Hyderabad, India |
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Abstract: | Several formalisms for implementing organisational policies that assign specific roles to each of the agents in a multi-agent
system (MAS) have been proposed like the contract net protocol, the social reasoning mechanism and the distributed computational
economy. However, as no single organisation is appropriate in all situations, organisation self design had been proposed to
allow an organisation of problem solvers to adapt itself to a dynamically changing environment. In this paper we propose an
adaptive organisational framework that exploits and integrates the essential features of these existing organisational policies
not only to meet the needs of time constrained noncritical applications, where computational load on the organisation cannot
be predicted ahead of time, but also to utilise the available system resources efficiently. We also introduce the notion of
decommitments and penalties in this approach which was not present in the original contract net protocol. |
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Keywords: | Multi-agent system contract net protocol social reasoning mechanism distributed computational economy organisation self design |
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