In this paper we explore the relationship between selforganization of multiagent systems and adjustable autonomy in intelligent agents. To discuss multiagent organizations, we introduce the Framework for selfOrganization and Robustness in Multiagent systems (FORM). This framework uses delegation as the central concept to define organizational relationships in taskassignment multiagent systems. ...

As there are huge gaps between the local micro interactions among agents and the global macro emergence of self-organizing system, it is a great challenge to design self-organizing mechanism and develop self-organizing multi-agent system to obtain expected emergence. Policy-based selforganization approach is helpful to deal with the issue, in which policy is the abstraction of self-organizing m...

Conventional wisdom is that a person's attitude towards an issue dictates their behaviour. In contrast, self-perception theory accounts for how person forms attitude. the context of this paper, asserts can, in absence prior experience, establish cycling based on observing own, hopefully, positive experience. The adaptive agent-based model, MATSim, allows one to test theory. case study Cape Town...

We present a detailed analysis of the self-organization phenomenon in which the stylized facts originate from finite size effects with respect to the number of agents considered and disappear in the limit of an infinite population. By introducing the possibility that agents can enter or leave the market depending on the behavior of the price, it is possible to show that the system self-organize...

This paper studies the effect of different implementation approaches on agent-based computer models. This is accomplished via four reimplementations of a simple model of self-organization. How implementation choices 'guide our hands' and lead possibly to implicit assumptions about the modeled system is also demonstrated. Furthermore, the question of what makes a model agent-based is studied. An...