Towards Self-organized Service-Oriented Multi-agent Systems

Abstract

Abstract. The demand for large-scale systems running in complex and even chaotic environments requires the consideration of new paradigms and technologies that provide flexibility, robustness, agility and responsiveness. Multiagents systems is pointed out as a suitable approach to address this challenge by offering an alternative way to design control systems, based on the decentralization of control functions over distributed autonomous and cooperative entities. However, in spite of their enormous potential, they usually lack some aspects related to interoperability, optimization in decentralized structures and truly self-adaptation. This paper discusses a new perspective to engineer adaptive complex systems considering a 3-layer framework integrating several complementary paradigms and technologies. In a first step, it suggests the integration of multi-agent systems with service-oriented architectures to overcome the limitations of interoperability and smooth migration, followed by the use of technology enablers, such as cloud computing and wireless sensor networks, to provide a ubiquitous and reconfigurable environment. Finally, the resulted service-oriented multi-agent system should be enhanced with biologically inspired techniques, namely self-organization, to reach a truly robust, agile and adaptive system.

An engineering framework for Service-Oriented Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

“…On the other hand, it has been identified a set of enhancement/addition in order to be able to connect the framework with other tools and environments. Such as the tool proposed in [16], the approach presented in [7] and the architecture described in [33]. IMC-AESOP [34] and SOCRADES [35] are two promising architectures for cloud-based industrial Cyber-Physical Systems.…”

“…In it the companies share resources by means of an agent-based infrastructure built on top of service-oriented technologies in order to define virtual enterprises. The SoMAS approach defined in ANEMONA-S is close to the work presented in [7]. Nevertheless, in [7] there is lack of methodological process to assist the system developer during system development.…”

“…The SoMAS approach defined in ANEMONA-S is close to the work presented in [7]. Nevertheless, in [7] there is lack of methodological process to assist the system developer during system development. The ANEMONA-S method can be used to complement it in order to help the system designer at every development step.…”

“…In fact, in spite of both trying to deal with the same kind of environments formed by loose-coupled, flexible, persistent and distributed tasks [5], MAS and SoA present some important differences, namely in terms of autonomy and interoperability (see [6] for an in-depth study). Some researches state that the lacks in terms of interoperability exhibited by the MAS solutions in the manufacturing field can be overcome by combining SoA principles, and especially by using Web services technology [7]. An example of this fact is the new approach of Service Oriented Multi-agent Systems (SoMAS).…”

Using Blockchain in the Internet of Things Coordination

“…These limitations also affect the ability to adapt to changing business requirements, to the resolution of flexible and distributed collaboration, to the coordination of real-time interaction and collaboration between multiple agents [4].…”