The architecture of a multi-agent system defines the basic principles of its formation and operation, including the format of the organizational structure representing a graph in which agents act as vertices, and the links between them are designated by edges. A common drawback of existing approaches to representing the architectures of multi-agent systems is the support of no more than two types of organizational structures, among which the optimal one for the given environmental parameters may be absent. This paper proposes a method for representing the architecture of a multi-agent system, implemented by borrowing the mechanisms of living nature, namely the principles of organizing animal communities. The proposed approach allows modeling organizational structures of the following types: "coalition", "team", "hierarchical structure", "federation", "congregation". To determine the optimal architecture of a multi-agent system, optimal for specific environmental conditions, it is possible to use a "genetic algorithm".

Keywords: multi-agent system, architecture, agent, organizational structure, optimization