An adaptive organizational policy for multi agent systems - AASMAN

Several formalisms for implementing organizational policies that assign specific roles to agents in a MAS have been proposed like the contract net protocol (CNP), the social reasoning mechanism (SRM), and the distributed computational economy (DCE). Organization self design (OSD) had been proposed to achieve load balancing in a distributed environment. In this paper we propose an adaptive organizational framework that exploits the essential features of CNP, SRM and DCE and integrates these with OSD. The resulting framework not only meets the needs of time constrained non critical applications where computational load on the organization cannot be predicted ahead of time but also utilises the available system resources efficiently.