The Moise+ Organisation Model

Moise+ is an organisacional model for Multi-Agent Systems based on notions like roles, groups, and missions. It enables an MAS to have an explicit description of its organisation.

Documentation

Paper describing the Artifact and Agent infrastructure (Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2009)
Paper describing the Moise+ model and its implementation with Jason (International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, 1(3/4):370-395, 2007)
Paper describing the Moise+ model (SBIA'02)
Paper describing S-Moise+ implementation (OOOP'05)
List of other related papers
Tutorial
Slides of the talk in LIP6, 2009: Part I: Organisation Oriented Programming of MAS: From Closed to Open MAS, Part II: Organisation Oriented Programming with MOISE+ at the system and agent levels
Slides of the talk in Technical Fora Group at EUMAS'07 - Software tools to build regulated MAS, 2007: Programming organisational agents with Moise+ & Jason.
Slides of the talk in Dagstuhl Seminar - Foundations and Practice of Programming Multi-Agent Systems, 2006: Programming MAS reorganisation with Moise+.
Slides of JAIA'03 course Organização de Sistemas Multiagentes (in portuguese), slides part 1, slides part 2.

Software

Moise+ Java API: this API allows the creation of an organisational specification and organisational entity dynamics. All organisational constraints are consisted before an organisational action like role adoption, mision commitment, group creation, etc. In this API, there is no agent, just the organisation. The programmer needs to tie the organisation to some agent model/architecture.

The latest version of the sources can be downloaded from SourceForce subversion service.
Jason-Moise+: This software binds Jason agents with Moise+, these agents can thus access, reason, and change a Moise+ organisation. The main feature of this software is that the agents are programmed in AgentSpeak, a BDI based programming language.
Saci-Moise+: Saci is an MAS platform that uses Moise+ as organisation model. In Saci-Moise+ one can create distributed agents, in Java, that follows an organisational specification.

Project members

Contact: Jomi.