MODELING ROLES FOR ORGANIZATION IN OPEN DISTRIBUTED MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS

Abstract

Role has become an essential concept for designing interactions among agents in autonomous open distributed systems. While roles in closed distributed systems are completely defined during designing, roles in open multi-agent systems may be dynamically allocated during interaction between agents and depend on capabilities, actions, goals and types of organization that the agent is dispatched. The purpose of this paper firstly extends the role approach with capabilities and actions and then develops a relational algebra among types of roles. An algorithm of allocating roles to agents and an application scenario corresponding to a social organization structure of a multi-auction commercial service system will be investigated