The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Digital pheromone mechanisms for coordination of unmanned vehicles
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Programming agent deliberation: an approach illustrated using the 3APL language
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Process Coordination and Ubiquitous Computing
Process Coordination and Ubiquitous Computing
The dMARS Architecture: A Specification of the Distributed Multi-Agent Reasoning System
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Instructions-Based Semantics of Agent Mediated Interaction
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
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
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
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 versus subjective coordination in the engineering of agent systems
Intelligent information agents
Artifacts for time-aware agents
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Formal ReSpecT in the A&A Perspective
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Give agents their artifacts: the A&A approach for engineering working environments in MAS
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Designing self-organising environments with agents and artefacts: a simulation-driven approach
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
A&A for modelling and engineering simulations in Systems Biology
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Prototyping Concurrent Systems with Agents and Artifacts: Framework and Core Calculus
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR RBAC-MAS: AN APPROACH BASED ON AGENT COORDINATION CONTEXTS
Applied Artificial Intelligence
Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Design Patterns for Self-organising Systems
CEEMAS '07 Proceedings of the 5th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V
Argumentation and Artifact for Dialogue Support
Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
Environment in agent-oriented software engineering methodologies
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
General-Purpose Coordination Abstractions for Managing Interaction in MAS
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
A BDI agent system for credit risk assessment based on fuzzy logic
ASC '07 Proceedings of The Eleventh IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
Robustness and Dependability of Self-Organizing Systems - A Safety Engineering Perspective
SSS '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
ALBA: a generic library for programming mobile agents with prolog
ProMAS'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
Environment as active support of interaction
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Cognitive stigmergy: towards a framework based on agents and artifacts
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Designing self-organising MAS environments: the collective sort case
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Active coordination artifacts in collaborative ubiquitous-computing environments
AmI'07 Proceedings of the 2007 European conference on Ambient intelligence
A planner infrastructure for semantic web enabled agents
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
The A&A programming model and technology for developing agent environments in MAS
ProMAS'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
Cloudscape: language support to coordinate and control distributed applications in the cloud
Proceedings of the compilation of the co-located workshops on DSM'11, TMC'11, AGERE!'11, AOOPES'11, NEAT'11, & VMIL'11
AIMSA'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Artificial Intelligence: methodology, Systems, and Applications
Coordination artifacts as first-class abstractions for MAS engineering: state of the research
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Distributed workflow upon linkable coordination artifacts
COORDINATION'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages
A method fragments approach to methodologies for engineering self-organizing systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Context-Aware Multi-Agent Planning in intelligent environments
Information Sciences: an International Journal
CooL-AgentSpeak: Endowing AgentSpeak-DL agents with plan exchange and ontology services
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
CooL-AgentSpeak: Endowing AgentSpeak-DL agents with plan exchange and ontology services
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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This paper introduces the notion of artifact as a first-class abstraction in MASs (multi-agent systems) and focuses on its impact on MAS programming. Artifacts are runtime devices providing some kind of function or service which agents can fruitfully use – both individually and collectively – to achieve their individual as well as social objectives. Artifacts can be conceived (and programmed) as basic building blocks to model and build agent (working) environments. Besides introducing a conceptual and modelling framework, the paper discusses the impact of this new notion on MAS programming, focussing in particular on MAS composed by cognitive agents. To make the discussion more concrete, we provide an example scenario featuring 3APL agents whose coordination activity is supported by TuCSoN tuple centres – an existing coordination model providing some of the basic properties of artifacts for MASs.