Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
T&Aelig;MS: a framework for environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Distributed models for decision support
Multiagent systems
Coordination models: a guided tour
Coordination of Internet agents
Reflections on the Nature of Multi-Agent Coordination and Its Implications for an Agent Architecture
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Emergent Properties of a Market-based Digital Library with Strategic Agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Using Patterns to Design Rules in Workflows
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Engineering agent systems for decision support
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Co-ordination in artificial agent societies: social structures and its implications for autonomous problem-solving agents
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
Coordination knowledge engineering
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
Fundamenta Informaticae
Innovations in multi-agent systems
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Extending virtual organizations to improve trust mechanisms
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Integrating Trust in Virtual Organisations
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems: Towards a Technology of Agreement
MATES '08 Proceedings of the 6th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
Addressing the Brittleness of Agent Interaction
PRIMA '08 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents: Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Hybrid Reputation Model Based on the Use of Organizations
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
Dynamic Evolution of Role Taxonomies through Multidimensional Clustering in Multiagent Organizations
PRIMA '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
Effective use of organisational abstractions for confidence models
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
Environment programming in multi-agent systems: an artifact-based perspective
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Agent encapsulation in a cognitive vision MAS
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Environment-based coordination through coordination artifacts
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Coordination artifacts as first-class abstractions for MAS engineering: state of the research
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
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
Fundamenta Informaticae
Organisational structures in next-generation distributed systems: Towards a technology of agreement
Multiagent and Grid Systems
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The governance of interaction is a critical issue in the engineering of agent systems. Research on coordination addresses this issue by providing a wide range of models, abstractions and technologies. It is often the case, however, that such a wide range of proposals could not easily find an unitary and coherent conceptual framework where all the different views and solutions can be understood and compared - and this is particularly true in the context of agent models and systems. In this paper, we first discuss how all the many diverse approaches to agent coordination can be categorised in two main classes - the subjective and objective approaches -, depending on whether they adopt the agent's or the engineer's viewpoint, respectively. We then claim that the two approaches have a deep and different impact on the way in which agent systems are modelled and built, and show two examples rooted in different models and technologies. Finally, we advocate that both approaches play a fundamental role in the engineering of agent systems, and that any methodology for the design and development of agent systems has to exploit both objective and subjective coordination models and technologies.