Controlling cooperative problem solving in industrial multi-agent systems using joint intentions
Artificial Intelligence
Collaborative plans for complex group action
Artificial Intelligence
Modelling social action for AI agents
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: artificial intelligence 40 years later
Artificial Life
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
Multiagent System Engineering: The Coordination Viewpoint
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
Modeling Indirect Interaction in Open Computational Systems
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
Towards a Formal Approach to Overhearing: Algorithms for Conversation Identification
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
The communicative multiagent team decision problem: analyzing teamwork theories and models
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
Objective versus subjective coordination in the engineering of agent systems
Intelligent information agents
AAAI'93 Proceedings of the eleventh national conference on Artificial intelligence
Environments in multiagent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Autonomic communication services: a new challenge for software agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
On the Use of Symbolic Data Analysis to Model Communication Environments
CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
Regulated multi-party communications and context awareness through the environment
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
Tacitly Communicating with Our Intelligent Environment via Our Practical Behavior and Its Traces
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Environment as active support of interaction
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Environmental support for tag interactions
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Trace signals: the meanings of stigmergy
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Implementing over-sensing in heterogeneous multi-agent systems on top of artifact-based environments
MATES'09 Proceedings of the 7th German conference on Multiagent system technologies
Standing on the shoulders of ants: stigmergy in the web
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Controlling multi-party interaction within normative multi-agent organizations
COIN@AAMAS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
An operational model for mutual awareness
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Users and services in intelligent networks
AINTEC'05 Proceedings of the First Asian Internet Engineering conference on Technologies for Advanced Heterogeneous Networks
Environments for multiagent systems state-of-the-art and research challenges
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
T-compound interaction and overhearing agents
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Behavioral Implicit Communication (BIC): Communicating with Smart Environments
International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence
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Coordination between multiple autonomous agents is a major issue for open multi-agent systems. This paper proposes the notion of Behavioural Implicit Communication (BIC) originally devised in human and animal societies as a new and critical coordination mechanism also for artificial agents. BIC is a parasitical form of communication that exploits both some environmental properties and the agents' capacity to interpret their actions. In this paper we abstract from the agents' architecture to focus on the interaction mediated by the environment. Observability of the environment – and in particular of agents' actions – is crucial for implementing BIC-based form of coordination in artificial societies. Accordingly in this paper we introduce an abstract model of environment providing services to enhance observation power of agents, enabling BIC and other form of observation-based coordination. Also, we describe a typology of environments and examples of observation based coordination with and without implicit communication.