Design Pattern for Self-Organization Multi-agent Systems Based on Policy

Self-organization is an important characteristic for multi-agent systems. However developing self-organization multi-agent systems in a repeated and effective way is still a great challenge. It is well known that design patterns are the practice and knowledge about solutions for recurring problems, and reusing design pattern can significantly improve the software development quality and efficiency. On the other hand, current self-organization applications are still lack of effective way to handle the unpredicted environment and changing user requirements. In this paper, we take policy as the basic principle for self-organization multi-agent systems to solve this problem, and propose a policy based design pattern for the self-organization multi-agent systems.