Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Communications of the ACM
Coordination languages and their significance
Communications of the ACM
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Coordination techniques for distributed artificial intelligence
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Tuple centres for the coordination of Internet agents
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Collective and Cooperative Group Behaviors: Biologically Inspired Experiments in Robotics
The 4th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics IV
Co-ordination in Multi-Agent Systems
Software Agents and Soft Computing: Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence, Concepts and Applications
Law-Governed Linda as a Coordination Model
ECOOP '94 Selected papers from the ECOOP'94 Workshop on Models and Languages for Coordination of Parallelism and Distribution, Object-Based Models and Languages for Concurrent Systems
Programmable Coordination Media
COORDINATION '97 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Coordination Languages and Models
Electronic Institutions: Future Trends and Challenges
CIA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents VI
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Multiagent System Engineering: The Coordination Viewpoint
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Coordination of massively concurrent activities
Coordination of massively concurrent activities
Role of Norms and Electronic Institutions in Multi-Agent Systems: The Harmonia Framework
Role of Norms and Electronic Institutions in Multi-Agent Systems: The Harmonia Framework
AMELI: An Agent-Based Middleware for Electronic Institutions
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Implementing norms in electronic institutions
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Environments in multiagent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Environments for Multi-Agent Systems: First International Workshop, E4MAS, 2004, New York, NY, July 19, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
A Formal Model for Situated Multi-Agent Systems
Fundamenta Informaticae - Multiagent Systems (FAMAS'03)
The semantics of intention maintenance for rational agents
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Activity theory as a framework for MAS coordination
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
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
The pragmatics of software agents: analysis and design of agent communication languages
Intelligent information agents
Co-ordination in artificial agent societies: social structures and its implications for autonomous problem-solving agents
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
AGRE: integrating environments with organizations
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
A spatially dependent communication model for ubiquitous systems
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
MIC*: a deployment environment for autonomous agents
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Extending virtual organizations to improve trust mechanisms
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
Integrating Trust in Virtual Organisations
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Governing Environments for Agent-Based Traffic Simulations
CEEMAS '07 Proceedings of the 5th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V
Modeling and Design of an Agent-Based Micro-simulation of the Swiss Highway Network
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Coordination and Agreement in Multi-Agent Systems
CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems: Towards a Technology of Agreement
MATES '08 Proceedings of the 6th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
The agent environment in multi-agent systems: A middleware perspective
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
VALIDATION OF CA MODELS OF PEDESTRIAN DYNAMICS WITH FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAMS
Cybernetics and Systems - BEST OF AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION 2008
HYBRID SIMULATION ALGORITHMS FOR AN AGENT-BASED MODEL OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE
Cybernetics and Systems - BEST OF AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION 2008
Regulation function of the environment in agent-based simulation
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Effective use of organisational abstractions for confidence models
ESAW'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world VII
Organisational structures in next-generation distributed systems: Towards a technology of agreement
Multiagent and Grid Systems
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Whenever a multiagent system is designed, many dependencies in the system are identified and must be solved in a correct way. Coordination deals with the management of such dependencies. For that, two complementary viewpoints can be distinguished: subjective coordination manages intra-agent aspects while objective coordination essentially deals with inter-agent aspects. On the basis of this separation of concerns, the paper discusses the need of infrastructures for objective coordination. As in usual agent software platforms, this can be done by offering implicit support for objective coordination, by establishing the conditions necessary for running agent programs and maintaining agent interactions. Other infrastructures such as Electronic Institutions go one step further and shape the governing aspects of objective coordination. However, this is usually done through dedicated middle-agents that belong to the institution. An alternative approach is to transfer the governing or regulating responsibility from institutional agents to the environment of a multiagent system. A promising way of doing this is to view the environment as a rule-based infrastructure that defines reactions to events. This has the advantage of allowing for the definition of laws that not only regulate agent interaction (as most work in governed interaction), but any action within the environment. We illustrate this approach by several examples in different domains of laws.