An organisational approach to engineer emergence within holarchies. (22nd November 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cossentino, Massimo; Galland, Stephane; Gaud, Nicolas; Hilaire, Vincent; , Abderrafiaa Koukam
• Is Part Of: International journal of agent-oriented software engineering. Volume 4:Number 3(2010)
• Page Start: 304
• Page End: 329
• Publication Date: 2010-11-22
• Subjects: agent-oriented software engineering -- emergence -- holonic systems -- holarchies -- self-organisation -- emergent behaviours -- holonic MAS -- multi-agent systems -- agent-based systems; Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Periodicals; Software engineering -- Periodicals; Systems software -- Periodicals; 005.12
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1746-1375

Abstract

An open issue in self-organisation is how to engineer emergent behaviours. This issue is also of interest for engineering holonic multi-agent systems as any level of a holarchy is dependant of the emergent behaviours of its sub-levels. In order to tackle this specific feature of holonic multi-agent systems, the capacity concept which abstracts a know-how from its concrete realisation is introduced. The use of this concept is illustrated in this paper through a case study using the ASPECS development process which enables the analysis, design, implementation and deployment of holonic multi-agent systems and integrates the capacity as a core concept of it is underlying metamodel, called capacity-role-interaction-organisation (i.e., CRIO).