Supervising mechanism for contract based virtual organization

摘要

Contract based agent organization management is a promising paradigm. However contract enforcement is vulnerable without appropriate supervising mechanism in this dynamic and autonomous setting. Based on commitment and ontology theory, a contract description language is proposed. A contract supervising semantics and a supervising algorithm is formulated. The proposed mechanism is suitable for contract violation checking and processing, and thus it is helpful to improve safety, reliability and robustness of autonomic agent organization.