An Algebraic Approach for Modelling Organisation, Roles and Contexts in MAS

Governing the ever growing complexity of artificial systems on the one hand requires a number of expressive abstractions and different levels of interpretation, on the other hand suggests the adoption of formal / mathematical tools to (at least partially) model and predict the system behaviour. By adopting agent-oriented abstractions as the starting point, we argue that organisation, coordination and security all insist on the same conceptual space — that is, static / dynamic relations / interactions among agents —, which also represents one of the main sources of complexity for MAS, and for artificial systems in general, as well.