Title
Organisational structures in next-generation distributed systems: Towards a technology of agreement
Abstract
This article provides a brief overview of the field of coordination in multiagent systems, and outlines its relation to current efforts working towards a paradigm for smart, next-generation distributed systems, where coordination is based on the concept of agreement between computational entities. Two examples are provided to visualize the types of mechanisms that can be part of a "technology of agreement". They explain how techniques from the field of organisations can be used to further coordination and agreement in open multiagent systems. This approach requires autonomy of the coordinated systems and their constituting agents, implying also the need for eventual reorganization and self-adaptation --hence the article presents also an architectural strategy to tackle the inherent dynamism in these features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.3233/MGS-2011-0168
Multiagent and Grid Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
constituting agent,architectural strategy,organisational structure,brief overview,open multiagent system,computational entity,current effort,multiagent system,inherent dynamism,eventual reorganization,distributed system
Adaptive architecture,Dynamism,Computer science,Autonomy,Multi-agent system,Self adaptation,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
2
1574-1702
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.51
30
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Holger Billhardt137236.86
Roberto Centeno214215.03
Carlos E. Cuesta329837.77
Alberto Fernández414622.47
Ramon Hermoso523322.80
Rubén Ortiz6342.40
Sascha Ossowski71646158.02
J. Santiago Pérez-Sotelo8102.59
Matteo Vasirani929328.75