An Investigation of the Advantages of Organization-Centered Multi-Agent Systems

TL;DR

This paper compares organization-centered multi-agent systems with classical agent-centered systems to evaluate their respective advantages and disadvantages through implementation in a controlled environment.

Contribution

It provides an empirical comparison of organization-centered and agent-centered multi-agent systems, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of each approach.

Findings

Organization-centered systems simplify goal specification.

Agent-centered systems offer more flexibility in goal fulfillment.

Empirical results show distinct advantages depending on system complexity.

Abstract

Whereas classical multi-agent systems have the agent in center, there have recently been a development towards focusing more on the organization of the system. This allows the designer to focus on what the system goals are, without considering how the goals should be fulfilled. This paper investigates whether taking this approach has any clear advantages to the classical way of implementing multi-agent systems. The investigation is done by implementing each type of system in the same environment in order to realize what advantages and disadvantages each approach has.