Coordination languages and their significance
Communications of the ACM
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
On social laws for artificial agent societies: off-line design
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on computational research on interaction and agency, part 2
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Coordination techniques for distributed artificial intelligence
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Planning in distributed artificial intelligence
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Designing for the dynamics of cooperative work activities
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Models and technologies for the coordination of Internet agents: a survey
Coordination of Internet agents
Three approaches to the coordination of multiagent systems
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Towards heterogeneous agent teams
Mutli-agents systems and applications
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Business Process Coordination: State of the Art, Trends, and Open Issues
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Co-ordination in Multi-Agent Systems
Software Agents and Soft Computing: Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence, Concepts and Applications
Multiagent System Engineering: The Coordination Viewpoint
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
The concept of activity as a basic unit of analysis for CSCW research
ECSCW'91 Proceedings of the second conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Plans as situated action: an activity theory approach to workflow systems
ECSCW'97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
Co-ordination in artificial agent societies: social structures and its implications for autonomous problem-solving agents
Modeling Indirect Interaction in Open Computational Systems
WETICE '03 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Supporting Coordination in Open Computational Systems with TuCSoN
WETICE '03 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Integrating objective & subjective coordination in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
A survey of coordination middleware for XML-centric applications
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Instructions-Based Semantics of Agent Mediated Interaction
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Coordination Artifacts: Environment-Based Coordination for Intelligent Agents
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Towards a paradigm change in computer science and software engineering: a synthesis
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Environments in multiagent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Science of Computer Programming - Special issue on security issues in coordination models, languages, and systems
Formal ReSpecT in the A&A Perspective
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Building computational institutions for agents with RoleX
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Autonomic communication services: a new challenge for software agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Agent-based conference management: a case study in SODA
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
RBAC for Organisation and Security in an Agent Coordination Infrastructure
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Simulating computational societies
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
Intelligent information agents
Environment programming in multi-agent systems: an artifact-based perspective
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Environment-based coordination through coordination artifacts
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Agent interaction semantics by timed operating instructions
AC'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Agent Communication
Organizations as socially constructed agents in the agent oriented paradigm
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Achieving competence by argumentation on rules for roles
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Coordination artifacts as first-class abstractions for MAS engineering: state of the research
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Programming MAS with artifacts
ProMAS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
A collaborative agent architecture with human-agent communication model
CAVE'12 Proceedings of the First international conference on Cognitive Agents for Virtual Environments
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Approaches to the coordination of multiagent systems (MAS) have been recently classified as subjective - typically coming from the distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) -, and objective - coming from the community of Coordination Models and Languages. Subjective and objective approaches have a very different impact on the engineering of social aspects of MAS, in particular with respect to the ability of specifying and enacting social laws to achieve global coherent behaviours. In this work, we provide a conceptual framework - influenced by the research on Activity Theory - where both subjective and objective coordination play an essential role, each providing effective means for the same coordination/ cooperative problems at different abstraction and operational levels: co-construction/co-operation level for subjective coordination, and coordination level for objective coordination. In particular, the work shows the benefits of supporting dynamic transitions between such levels, alternating co-operation stages - in which agents reason about coordination and cooperatively forge coordination artifacts (laws, constraints, norms) - and co-ordination stages - where the artifacts, embodied in proper coordination media, are exploited, so as to enact automated, consistent and prescriptive coordination.