Applying an Agent-Oriented Methodology to the Design of Artificial Organizations: A Case Study in Robotic Soccer

The multi-agent paradigm is widely used to provide solutions to a number of organizational problems related to the collective achievement of one or more tasks. All these problems share a common difficulty of design: how to proceed from the global specification of a collective task to the specification of the local behaviors to be provided to the agents? We have defined the Cassiopeia method whose specificity is to articulate the design of a multi-agent system around the notion of organization. This paper reports the use of this method for designing and implementing the organization of a soccer-playing robotic team. We show why we chose this application and how we designed it, and we discuss its interest and inherent difficulties in order to clearly express the needs for a design methodology dedicated to DAI.