eta-model for the analysis and design of Organizations in multi-agent systems

This paperpresents a generic meta-model of multi-agent systems based on organizational concepts such as groups, roles and structures. This model, called AALAADIN, de-jines a very simple description of coordination and nego-tiation schemes through multi-agent systems. Aalaadin is a meta-model of artijicial organization by which one can build multi-agent systems with diflerent forms of organiza-tions such as market-like and hierarchical organizations. We show that this meta-model allows for agent het-erogeneity in languages, applications and architectures. We also introduce the concept of organizational reflection which uses the same conceptual model to describe system-level tasks such as remote communication and migration of agents. Finally, we briejly describe a platform, called MADKIT, based on this model. It relies on a minimal agent kernel with platform-level services implemented as agents, groups and roles.