An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems.

An overview of the self-organizing map algorithm, on which the papers in this issue are based, is presented in this article.

The Self-Organizing Map

I. the origin of species by means of natural selection

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology

The Object Management Group's (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) strategy envisages a world where models play a more direct role in software production, being amenable to manipulation and transformation by machine. Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is wider in scope than MDA. MDE combines process and analysis with architecture. This article sets out a framework for model driven engineering, which can be used as a point of reference for activity in this area. It proposes an organisation of the modelling 'space' and how to locate models in that space. It discusses different kinds of mappings between models. It explains why process and architecture are tightly connected. It discusses the importance and nature of tools. It identifies the need for defining families of languages and transformations, and for developing techniques for generating/configuring tools from such definitions. It concludes with a call to align metamodelling with formal language engineering techniques.

Model Driven Engineering

Multi-agent oriented programming with JaCaMo

Multiagent Systems (MASs) have evolved towards the specification of global constraints that heterogeneous and autonomous agents are supposed to follow when concerning open systems A subset of these constraints is known as the MAS organisation This article describes a set of computational tools that supports the development and the programming of such systems At the system level, a middleware is provided which ensures that all agents will follow the organisational constraints At the agent level, the AgentSpeak language is extended, using Jason features, so that the agents can perceive and act upon the organisation to which they belong

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Developing organised multiagent systems using the MOISE + model: programming issues at the system and agent levels

A Multiagent System (MAS) that explicitly represents its organization normally focuses either on the functioning or the structure of this organization. However, addressing both aspects is a prolific approach when one wants to design or describe a MAS organization. The problem is to define these aspects in such a way that they can be both assembled in a single coherent specification. The MOISE+ model - described here through a soccer team example - intends to be a step in this direction since the organization is seen under three points of view: structural, functional, and deontic.

A Model for the Structural, Functional, and Deontic Specification of Organizations in Multiagent Systems

A model for the structural, functional, and deontic specification of organizations in multiagents systems

The social and organisational aspects of agency have led to a good amount of theoretical work in terms of formal models and theories However, the conception and engineering of proper organisational infrastructures embodying such models and theories are still an open issue The introduction of normative concerns with requirements of openness and adaptation stresses this issue The corresponding mechanisms for the current infrastructures appear to be not appropriate for managing distributed and open normative organisations There is still the need of proper abstractions and tools to facilitate application agents taking part in the monitoring of the organisation on one hand, and in the adaptation and definition of the organisation in which they are situated on the other hand In this paper we present and discuss ORA4MAS (Organisational Artifacts for Multi-Agent Systems), a proposed approach aiming at these issues Based on the Agents and Artifacts meta-model (A&A), it introduces organisational artifacts as first class entities to instrument the organisation for supporting agents activities within it

Olivier Boissier

Papers

Multi-agent oriented programming with JaCaMo

Developing organised multiagent systems using the MOISE + model: programming issues at the system and agent levels

A Model for the Structural, Functional, and Deontic Specification of Organizations in Multiagent Systems

A model for the structural, functional, and deontic specification of organizations in multiagents systems

Instrumenting multi-agent organisations with organisational artifacts and agents