| Title |
Designing Self-organising {MAS} Environments: The Collective Sort Case |
| Authors |
Gardelli, Luca and Viroli, Mirko and Casadei, Matteo and Omicini, Andrea |
| Type |
In Article Collection/Post-Proceedings |
| Booktitle |
Environments for Multi-Agent Systems III |
| Editor |
Weyns, Danny and Parunak, H. Van Dyke and Michel, Fabien |
| Pages |
254--271 |
| Series |
LNCS (LNAI) |
| Publisher |
Springer |
| Volume |
4389 |
| Year |
2007 |
| ISBN |
978-3-540-71102-5 |
| ISSN |
0302-9743 |
| DOI |
10.1007/978-3-540-71103-2_7 |
| Note |
3rd International Workshop (E4MAS 2006), Hakodate, Japan, 8 May 2006. Selected Revised and Invited Papers |
| Abstract |
Self-organisation is being recognised as an effective conceptual framework
to deal with the complexity inherent to modern artificial systems.
In this article, we explore the applicability of self-organisation
principles to the development
of multi-agent system (MAS) environments. First, we discuss a methodological
approach for the engineering of complex systems, which features emergent
properties: this is based on formal modelling and stochastic simulation,
used
to analyse global system dynamics and tune system parameters at the
early stages of design. Then, as a suitable target for this approach,
we describe an architecture for self-organising environments featuring
artifacts and
environmental agents as fundamental entities. As an example, we analyse
a MAS distributed environment made of tuple spaces, where environmental
agents are assigned the task of moving tuples across tuples spaces
in background and according to local criteria, making complete clustering
an emergent property achieved through selforganisation. |
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