As I am writing my thesis I am trying to create an overview of my work in the past years. The order of topics in this overview is the same as the chapters in my thesis and in most cases also reflects the chronological order in which the research was carried out (with an exception of the first two chapters). In this post I describe the first three chapters. Another post will be dedicated to the final chapters of my thesis. The first chapter of the thesis covers the research questions, the methodology and a literature overview.
Market Based Coordination (chapter 2)
This work is more recent than most of the other work I’ve done but from a MAS-organization-view, it takes a more simple approach than in the other chapters. In this work we have applied market based coordination to the domain of coordinating power consumption by electric vehicles. In particular, we have shown how market based coordination is able to reduce the impact on the (low-voltage) distribution grid. The design of the MAS organization provides us with the basic components to describe MAS organizations. These components provide the basics on which we will extend in the Chapter 3 and will ultimately lead to the AgentCoRe framework in Chapter 4.
- M. Ghijsen and R. D’hulst.
Market-Based Coordinated Charging of Electric Vehicles on the Low-Voltage Distribution Grid, First International Workshop on Smart Grid Modeling and Simulation, 2011
RoboCupRescue (chapter 3)
I started my research by building ambulance agents in the RoboCupRescue simulator. The aim was that these agents should be capable of different forms of coordination. Inspired by Mintzberg we designed and implemented three different types of hierarchical MAS organizations. The research in RoboCupRescue has lead to two publications:
- M. Ghijsen, W.N.H Jansweijer and B.J. Wielinga.
The Effect of Task-Environment Factors on M.A.S. Coordination and Reorganization. Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 526-528. - M. Ghijsen, W.N.H. Jansweijer and B.J. Wielinga.
Adaptive Hierarchical Multi-Agent Organizations. In: R. Babuska and F.C.A. Groen (Eds.), Interactive Collaborative Information Systems, SCI 281, pp. 375-400, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010
AgentCoRe (chapter 4)
Based on lessons learned while designing and implementing organizations in the RoboCupRescue environment, we extracted a number of generic declarative and procedural knowledge components. These generic knowledge components together form the AgentCoRe framework. This framework enables agents to coordinate work in and reorganize the organization they are part of. A first version of this framework was published in:
- M. Ghijsen, W. Jansweijer and B.J. Wielinga.
Towards a Framework for Agent Coordination and Reorganization, AgentCoRe. In: Sichman, J. S. Padget, J. Ossowski, S. and Noriega, P. (ed.), Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008, 4870, 1-14
