From Goals to Organisations: automated organisation generator for MAS

Abstract

An explicit organisational structure helps entrants in open multi-agent systems (MAS) to reason about their positions in the organi- sation for cooperating to achieve mutual goals. In spite of its importance, there are few studies on automatic organisation generators that create explicit organisational structures. This paper introduces GoOrg, a pro- posal for automatic design of organisations. Our approach considers as inputs a goal decomposition tree (gdt) and user preferences. From the gdt with annotations such as necessary skills to achieve organisational goals, predicted workload and throughput, GoOrg creates roles in the form of an organisational chart. The main challenge is to define strate- gies to search the space of all organisational structures for those that can achieve the goals respecting constraints and taking into account user preferences. We can, for instance, prefer a flatter or a taller structure, more specialist or more generalist roles, and we can accept matrix con- nections or not.