TY - GEN
T1 - Rule conflicts in holonic institutions
AU - Jiang, Jie
AU - Pitt, Jeremy
AU - Diaconescu, Ada
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/23
Y1 - 2015/10/23
N2 - Large-scale self-organised systems, such as distributed community energy systems, have called for coordination approaches that are able to deal with issues such as heterogeneity, inter-dependence and dynamic variability. Holonic institutions have been proposed as an approach to converging the structuration required for multi-scale, multi-criteria optimisation in nested enterprises with the formal representation of institutionalised powers required for the minimal recognition of the rights to self-organise. A holonic institution is composed of interrelated sub-institutions, each of which may again be composed of interrelated sub-institutions, and may itself be nested in a supra-institution. With constituting components having possibly conflicting interests and values, a critical module of such holonic structures is conflict resolution, i.e., Each institution must be able to detect and resolve conflicts (1) between its own rules and that of the supra-institution (external), and (2) between its own rules and that of the individual members (internal). For this purpose, this paper presents a detailed analysis of rule conflicts that may exist in holonic institutions. By means of Event Calculus, we provide a preliminary formalisation of such conflicts.
AB - Large-scale self-organised systems, such as distributed community energy systems, have called for coordination approaches that are able to deal with issues such as heterogeneity, inter-dependence and dynamic variability. Holonic institutions have been proposed as an approach to converging the structuration required for multi-scale, multi-criteria optimisation in nested enterprises with the formal representation of institutionalised powers required for the minimal recognition of the rights to self-organise. A holonic institution is composed of interrelated sub-institutions, each of which may again be composed of interrelated sub-institutions, and may itself be nested in a supra-institution. With constituting components having possibly conflicting interests and values, a critical module of such holonic structures is conflict resolution, i.e., Each institution must be able to detect and resolve conflicts (1) between its own rules and that of the supra-institution (external), and (2) between its own rules and that of the individual members (internal). For this purpose, this paper presents a detailed analysis of rule conflicts that may exist in holonic institutions. By means of Event Calculus, we provide a preliminary formalisation of such conflicts.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84962166674
U2 - 10.1109/SASOW.2015.13
DO - 10.1109/SASOW.2015.13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962166674
T3 - Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2015
SP - 49
EP - 54
BT - Proceedings - 2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE 9th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2015
Y2 - 21 September 2015 through 25 September 2015
ER -