Embodied Organizations: a Unifying Perspective in Programming Agents, Organizations and Environments
Michele Piunti, Olivier Boissier, Jomi Fred Hübner, Alessandro Ricci · 2010
Abstract. MAS research pushes the notion of openness related to sys-tems combining heterogeneous computational entities. Typically, those entities answer to different purposes and functions and their integration is a crucial issue. Starting from a comprehensive approach in developing agents, organizations and environments, this paper devises an integrated approach and describes a unifying programming model. It introduces the notion of embodied organization, which is described first focusing on the main entities as separate concerns; and, second, establishing different in-teraction styles aimed to seamlessly integrate the various entities in a co-herent system. An integration framework, built on top of Jason, CArtAgO andMoise (as programming platforms for agents, environments and or-ganizations resp.) is described as a suitable technology to build embodied organizations in practice. 1