AORTA: Adding Organizational Reasoning to Agents: Extended abstract

Open systems are characterized by a diversity of heterogeneous and autonomous agents that act according to private goals, and with a behavior that is hard to predict. They can be regulated through organizations similar to human organizations, which regulate the agents’ behavior space and describe the expected behavior of the agents.

Agents need to be able to reason about the regulations, so that they can act within the expected boundaries and work towards the objectives of the organization. This extended abstract introduces AORTA, a component that can be integrated into agents’ reasoning mechanism, allowing them to reason about (and act upon) regulations specified by an organizational model using simple reasoning rules.

The added value is that the organizational model is independent of that of the agents, and that the approach is not tied to a specific organizational model.