A blackboard architecture for control
Artificial Intelligence
Cooperating agents: a unified theory of communication and social structure
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Contributions to a computer-based theory of strategies
Contributions to a computer-based theory of strategies
Coordination techniques for distributed artificial intelligence
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Representing agent interaction protocols in UML
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
Organization Self-Design of Distributed Production Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Task Allocation: A Group Self-Design Approach
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Hierarchical planning in a distributed environment
IJCAI'79 Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Using partial global plans to coordinate distributed problem solvers
IJCAI'87 Proceedings of the 10th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Coordinating Distributed Decision Making Using Reusable Interaction Specifications
PRIMA '00 Proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents: Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents
Agent-Oriented Modelling: Software versus the World
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
Influence-Based Autonomy Levels in Agent Decision-Making
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
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Researchers have developed various techniques to address MAS problemsolving activities, i.e., agent organization construction, plan generation, task allocation, plan integration, and plan execution. An agentís respective problem solving and coordination techniques must be properly understood before they can be included into any other software system. ëStrategiesí describe the techniques by which agents perform their individual decision-making processes and coordinate those processes with other agents. This chapter describes current work in characterizing agent operations, specifically, the representation of strategies in terms of roles and interactions as well as a trade-off evaluation mechanism for deciding which strategy is most appropriate for a given situation. On-line evaluation and selection of strategies will allow agents to tailor their behavior to given environment situations and thus, offer increase flexibility and adaptability of response.