Strudel—an extensible electronic conversation toolkit
CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
The action workflow approach to workflow management technology
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Flexible, active support for collaborative work with ConversationBuilder
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Towards a cooperation knowledge level for collaborative problem solving
ECAI '92 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
A situated view of representation and control
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on computational research on interaction and agency, part 2
Controlling cooperative problem solving in industrial multi-agent systems using joint intentions
Artificial Intelligence
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation
Workflow support for electronic commerce applications
Decision Support Systems
A Distributed Multi-agent Model for Value Nets
Proceedings of the 14th International conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: engineering of intelligent systems
Agent Based Design and Simulation of Supply Chain Systems
WET-ICE '97 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Enabling Technologies on Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Working Group Report on Computer Support in Project Coordination
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Project coordination in design processes
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
Aggressive Pricing to Exploit Market Niches in Supply Chains
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Modelling web service composition with UML 2.0
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
Soft computing optimization methods applied to logistic processes
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
KSEM'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Knowledge science, engineering and management
Multi-agent modeling and simulation for petroleum supply chain
ICIC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Intelligent computing: Part II
Automated negotiation based on contract net and petri net
EC-Web'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies
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The agent view provides a level of abstraction at which we envisage computational systems carrying out cooperative work by interoperating across net worked people, organizations and machines. A major challenge in building such systems is coordinating the behavior of the individual agents to achieve the individual and shared goals of the participants. We propose a conceptualization of the coordination task around the notion of structured "conversation" amongst agents. Based on this notion we build a complete multiagent programming language and system for explicitly representing, applying and capturing coordination knowledge. The language provides KQML-based communication, an agent definition and execution environment, support for describing interactions as multiple structured conversations among agents and rule-based approaches to conversation selection, conversation execution and event handling. The major application of the system is the construction and integration of multiagent supply chain systems for manufacturing enterprises. This application is used throughout the paper to illustrate the introduced concepts and language constructs.