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COIN 2014: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X pp 182–196Cite as

Comparing and Evaluating Organizational Models: A Multi-agent Programming Contest Case Study

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Abstract

An important subset of multi-agent systems (MAS) are based on organizational models. These models try to define pre-defined intended agent interaction patterns. Given an application domain, however, the choice of a particular organizational model that better solves the problem is still an open problem. In order to guide this choice, a MAS developer must have the opportunity to test distinct organizational models easily. In this work, we compare and evaluate different organization models of a MAS, whose goal is to evolve in the “Agents on Mars” scenario proposed in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest (MAPC).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://multiagentcontest.org.

  2. 2.

    Available at http://jacamo.sourceforge.net/.

  3. 3.

    Available at http://jason.sourceforge.net/.

  4. 4.

    Available at http://cartago.sourceforge.net/.

  5. 5.

    Available at http://moise.sourceforge.net/.

  6. 6.

    Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/apleis/.

  7. 7.

    This threshold value was obtained empirically, by analyzing the results of previous editions of the contest.

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Jaime Simão Sichman is partially supported by CNPq and FAPESP/Brazil.

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Franco, M.R., Sichman, J.S. (2015). Comparing and Evaluating Organizational Models: A Multi-agent Programming Contest Case Study. In: Ghose, A., Oren, N., Telang, P., Thangarajah, J. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X. COIN 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9372. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_12

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