SODA: societies and infrastructures in the analysis and design of agent-based systems
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
Coordinating agents using agent communication languages conversations
Coordination of Internet agents
Brokering and matchmaking for coordination of agent societies: a survey
Coordination of Internet agents
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
The Knowledge Engineering Review
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This paper aims at showing the benefits of objective coordination in the design and development of agent-based distributed applications. We compare the subjective and objective coordination approaches in the engineering of a simple case study - a distributed MP3 encoding application - pointing out the benefits of the objective ones. In particular, we discuss the design and development of the sample application using three different solutions according to such approaches: a subjective solution, based on conversation and middle-agents, as often found in Distributed Artificial Intelligence and in Multi-Agent Systems; JavaSpaces, as a notable example of loosely-objective approach, not expressive enough to gain all the advantages of objective coordination; and TuCSoN as a fully-objective approach, providing a hybrid coordination model able to exploit the full potential of objective coordination.