An approach in which multi-agent systems are seen from four perspectives: the subjective and personal perspective of minds, the objective and personal perspective of behaviors, the objective and collective perspective of environments and their structuring in terms of objective organizations, the subjective and collective perspective of culture.
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Towards an Integral Approach of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
Jacques Ferber (LIRMM – University of Montpellier II, France), Tiberiu Stratulat (LIRMM – University of Montpellier II, France), and John Tranier (LIRMM – University of Montpellier II, France)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch003
Abstract
In this chapter, we stress the importance of thinking a MAS in all its aspects (agents, environment, interactions, organizations, and institutions), using a more integral vision. We show that a genuine organizational approach has to take into account both the environment and the institutional part of MAS societies. Then, we propose the MASQ (Multi-Agent System based on Quadrants) meta-model, which constitutes an abstraction of the various aspects of an OCMAS (Organization Centered Multi-Agent Systems), extending AGR (Agent/Group/Role). MASQ is based on a four-quadrant framework, where the analysis and design of a system is performed along two axes: an interior/exterior dimension and an individual/collective dimension. We give a conceptual definition of this approach and we will show that it is possible to apply it to practical models.