Role-Based Access Control Models
Computer
Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms
Communications of the ACM
On the expressive power of a language for programming coordination media
SAC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Law-governed interaction: a coordination and control mechanism for heterogeneous distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Electronic Institutions: Future Trends and Challenges
CIA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents VI
Formal ReSpecT in the A&A Perspective
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Situated tuple centres in ReSpecT
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
RBAC for Organisation and Security in an Agent Coordination Infrastructure
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Specification by refinement and agreement: designing agent interaction using landmarks and contracts
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Programming MAS with artifacts
ProMAS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Science of Computer Programming
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Interaction represents one of the main sources of complexity in Multi-agent Systems (MAS). As a consequence, coordination – as the management of the space of system interaction – plays a key role in the engineering of MAS. In this context, the tuple centre coordination abstraction have been experimented in MAS to manage interaction among agents and between agents and MAS environment. Along this line, the aim of this paper is to test the expressive power of tuple centres as the unifying abstractions to model and govern the whole range of admissible interactions within a MAS. For this purpose, we take the notion of Agent Coordination Context (ACC) – aimed at supporting interaction between an individual agent and the MAS as a whole – and show how it can be implemented in terms of a tuple centre in a MAS infrastructure. In particular, we adopt ReSpecT tuple centres as the coordination abstractions and TuCSoN as the coordination infrastructure managing the space of interaction in a MAS, and provide an example of how the TuCSoN ACC can be implemented by means of a suitably-programmed ReSpecT tuple centre.