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Abstract:
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Self-organization of a collection of agents is a crucial issue in multi-agent systems that operate in open and dynamic environments. Most self-organizing mechanisms proposed in the literature tackle with organization structure issues at design time. However, in open environments, agents must be able to adapt towards the most appropriate organizations according to the environment conditions and their unpredictable changes. In this paper, a Propitient Multiagent System (PMAS) is presented. The self-organization approach is inspired by the immune system principles that meet the requirements of both scalability and adaptability in dynamic environments. In this approach, the environment conditions and modifications are considered as antigens and the multi-agent system reacts like the immune system against pathogen attacks; it detects the infection, recognizes and adapts its structure in order to deliver an appropriate response to eliminate it.
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