Engineering emergence in Multi-Agent Systems: Following the problem organisation

Abstract

To support the development of self-organising systems with emergence, we re-situate such systems and approaches from a software architecture point of view and explain and rationalise an important architectural strategy: designing the solution by following the problem organisation. We extract the architectural advantages of such a strategy and show how it is well coherent with existing methodological approaches to self-organisation. We illustrate it with a robotics example.