Structural evaluation of agent organizations

Davide Grossi, Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum, Mehdi Dastani, Lambèr Royakkers

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Abstract

A multi-agent system can be analyzed and specified as an organization consisting of roles and their relations. The performance of an organization depends on many factors among which the topology of its organizational structure, i.e., the set of relations holding between its roles. This short paper provides the sketch of quantitative methods for addressing the issue of the analysis, evaluation, and comparison of organizational structures. To this aim, quantitative concepts from graph theory are applied which deliver numerical analyzes of organizational structures. Here, an illustrative number of these concepts is sketched and their connection to properties that are commonly indicated as critical for organizations (robustness, flexibility and efficiency) is shown. Copyright 2006 ACM.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Pages1110-1112
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventFifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS - , Japan
Duration: 8 May 200612 May 2006

Conference

ConferenceFifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
Country/TerritoryJapan
Period8/05/0612/05/06

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