Title
A Dynamic Coordination Mechanism Using Adjustable Autonomy
Author
Neef, R.M.
van der Vecht, B.
Dignum, F.
Meyer, J.J.C.
TNO Defensie en Veiligheid
Contributor
Sichman, J. (editor)
Noriega, P. (editor)
Padget, J. (editor)
Ossowski, S. (editor)
Publication year
2008
Abstract
Agents in an organization need to coordinate their actions in order to reach the organizational goals. This research describes the relation between types of coordination and the autonomy of actors. In an experimental setting we show that there is not one best way to coordinate in all situations. The dynamics and complexity of, for example, crisis situations require a crisis management organization to work with dynamic types of coordination. In order to reach dynamic coordination we provide the actors with adjustable autonomy. Actors should be able to make decisions at different levels of autonomy and reason about the required level. We propose a way to implement this in a multi-agent system. The agent is provided with reasoning rules with which it can control the external influences on its decision-making.
Subject
Informatics
Autonomous agents
Dynamic coordination
Organizational goals
Adaptive autonomy
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TNO identifier
222142
Publisher
Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Source
International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III, COIN 2007: COIN@AAMAS 2007 and COIN@MALLOW 2007, 3-4 September 2007, Durham., 83-96
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Document type
conference paper