Title :
Supervising Mechanism for Contract Based Virtual Organization
Author :
Cai, Guoyong ; Qian, Junyan ; Gao, Ji
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Guilin Univ. of Electron. Technol., Guilin, China
Abstract :
Contract based agent organization management is a promising paradigm. However contract enforcement is vulnerable without appropriate supervising mechanism in this dynamic and autonomous setting. Based on commitment and ontology theory, a contract description language is proposed. A contract supervising semantics and a supervising algorithm is formulated. The proposed mechanism is suitable for contract violation checking and processing, and thus it is helpful to improve safety, reliability and robustness of autonomic agent organization.
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); specification languages; contract description language; contract supervising semantics; contract violation checking; contract-based agent organization management; contract-based virtual organization; ontology theory; supervising mechanism; Computer architecture; Computer science; Contracts; DSL; Genetics; Large-scale systems; Ontologies; Robustness; Safety; Specification languages; agent; contract supervising; contract violation; virtual organization;
Conference_Titel :
Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, 2009. WGEC '09. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guilin
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3899-0
DOI :
10.1109/WGEC.2009.163
