Organization of Multi-Agent Systems: An Overview

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of how multi-agent systems organize themselves at micro and macro levels, discussing motivations, paradigms, models, and techniques for static and dynamic reorganization.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive survey of MAS organization concepts, highlighting different paradigms, models, and techniques for both static and dynamic reorganization.

Findings

Different organizational paradigms are suited for various MAS environments.

Various models support static and dynamic reorganization of agents.

The overview aids in understanding how MAS adapt to environmental changes.

Abstract

In complex, open, and heterogeneous environments, agents must be able to reorganize towards the most appropriate organizations to adapt unpredictable environment changes within Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Types of reorganization can be seen from two different levels. The individual agents level (micro-level) in which an agent changes its behaviors and interactions with other agents to adapt its local environment. And the organizational level (macro-level) in which the whole system changes it structure by adding or removing agents. This chapter is dedicated to overview different aspects of what is called MAS Organization including its motivations, paradigms, models, and techniques adopted for statically or dynamically organizing agents in MAS.