How to Control Emergence of Behaviours in a

—An open issue in self-organisation is how to control the emergence of behaviour. This issue is also of interest for engineering holonic multi-agent systems as any level of a holarchy is dependant of the emergent behaviours of its sub-levels. In order to tackle this specific feature of holonic multi-agent systems, the concept which abstracts a know-how from its concrete realisation is introduced. The use of this concept is illustrated in this paper through a case study using the ASPECS development process which enables the analysis, design, implementation and deployment of holonic multi-agent systems and integrates the capacity as a core concept of its underlying metamodel.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SASO
• Authors: Massimo Cossentino, Stéphane Galland, Nicolas Gaud, Vincent Hilaire, Abderrafiaa Koukam
• Keywords: Emergent Behaviours, Holonic Multi-agent Systems, SASO 2008, Self-Organizing Systems, —An Open Issue