Coordination languages and their significance
Communications of the ACM
Authentication in distributed systems: theory and practice
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
KQML as an agent communication language
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
Coordination models and languages as software integrators
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Coordinating Multiagent Applications on the WWW: A Reference Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Special track on coordination models, languages and applications
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM symposium on Applied computing
On the expressive power of a language for programming coordination media
SAC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Design Issues in Mobile-Agent Programming Systems
IEEE Concurrency
An Actor-Based Architecture for Customizing and Controlling Agent Ensembles
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Designing Multi-agent Systems around an Extensible Communication Abstraction
Selected papers from the ESPRIT Project ModelAge Final Workshop on Formal Models of Agents
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
A Scalable Location Tracking and Message Delivery Scheme for Mobile Agents
WETICE '98 Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Reactive Tuple Spaces for Mobile Agent Coordination
MA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Agents
Logic Programming Languages for the Internet
Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond, Essays in Honour of Robert A. Kowalski, Part I
Coordination and Access Control in Open Distributed Agent Systems: The TuCSoN Approach
COORDINATION '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Coordination Languages and Models
The LuCe Coordination Technology for MAS Design and Development on the Internet
COORDINATION '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Coordination Languages and Models
Coordinating e-health systems with TuCSoN semantic tuple centres
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
Environment-based coordination through coordination artifacts
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
A peer to peer agent coordination framework for IHE based cross-community health record exchange
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
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The Internet is rapidly becoming the privileged environment for today's Multi-Agent Systems. This introduces new issues in MAS' design and development, from both a conceptual and a technological viewpoint. In particular, the dichotomy between the openness of the execution environment and the need for secure execution models makes governing agents' interaction a really complex matter, especially when mobile agents are involved. If coordination is managing the interaction, then the issue of agent coordination is strictly related with the issues of topology (how the space where agents live and possibly move is modelled and represented), authentication (how agents are identified), and authorisation (what agents are allowed to do). To this end, we first discuss the TuCSoN model for the coordination of Internet agents, then show how it can be extended to model the space where agents live and interact cis a hierarchical collection of loccility domains, where programmable coordination media cire exploited to rule agent interaction and to support intelligent agent exploration. This makes TuCSoN result in a single coherent framework for the design and development of Internet-based MAS, which takes coordination as the basis for dealing with network topology, authentication and authorisation in a uniform way.