Multiagent systems and self-organizative virtual organizations, a step ahead in adaptive MAS

Organizations of agents based on Virtual Organizations needs to be supported by a coordinated effort that explicitly determines how the agents should be organized and carry out the actions and tasks assigned to them. The interactions of a multi-agent system cannot be only related to the agent and the communication skills, but also to the concepts of organizational engineering. Moreover, nowadays there is a clear trend towards using methods and tools that can help to develop and simulate virtual organizations by means of multiagent systems (MAS). Simulation is used for several purposes ranging from work flow to system's procedures representation. The contribution from agent based computing to the field of computer simulation mediated by ABS (Agent Based Simulation) is a new paradigm for the simulation of complex systems that require a high level of interaction between the entities of the system. The main goal of this work is a new global coordination model for an agent organization in a simulation context. The innovation of this work consists of the dynamic and adaptive planning capability to distribute tasks among the agent of the organization. The middleware used for simulation makes it possible to visualize the emergent agent behaviour and the entity agent.

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