Title
A formal model of agent-oriented virtual organisations and their formation
Abstract
We present a formal model for agent-oriented Virtual Organisations VOs for service grids and we study an associated operational model for the creation of VOs. The model is intended to be used for describing different service grid applications based on multiple agents and, as a result, it abstracts away from any realisation choices of service grid applications, the agents involved to support the applications and their interactions. Within the proposed framework VOs are created within societies of agents, where agents are abstractly characterised by goals and roles they can play within VOs. In turn, VOs are abstractly characterised by the agents participating in them with specific roles, as well as the workflow of services and corresponding contracts suitable for achieving the goals of the participating agents. We illustrate the proposed framework with an earth observation scenario, we discuss implementation issues, and we compare our approach with existing work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.3233/MGS-2011-0179
Multiagent and Grid Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
corresponding contract,proposed framework,different service grid application,service grid,proposed framework vos,agent-oriented virtual organisation,earth observation scenario,service grid application,formal model,operational model,agent-oriented virtual organisations vos,workflows,roles
Software engineering,Computer science,Knowledge management,Realisation,Earth observation,Workflow,Service grid,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
6
1574-1702
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
22
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jarred McGinnis119012.08
Kostas Stathis248848.22
Francesca Toni334327.02