Monday, May 01, 2006

Organization Structure of a Multi-Agent System

One of the key aspects in building a Multi-agent System (MAS) is the definition of the organization structure of that system. During my work I studied the paper "An organizational view of distributed systems. Mark S. Fox. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 11(1):70-80, January 1981". This paper helps a lot in making the right choice of an organization structure. The reader will understand what is behind the organization theory and it's application to the analysis and design of distributed software systems. During my study I have draw some diagrams that help to understand the concepts presented in this paper:

I hope this diagrams will help everyone interested in this subjects.