Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Issues in knowledge level modelling
Second generation expert systems
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
T&Aelig;MS: a framework for environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
Foundations of distributed artificial intelligence
Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms
Communications of the ACM
Distributed models for decision support
Multiagent systems
Coordination models: a guided tour
Coordination of Internet agents
Models and technologies for the coordination of Internet agents: a survey
Coordination of Internet agents
Brokering and matchmaking for coordination of agent societies: a survey
Coordination of Internet agents
Agent-oriented software engineering for Internet agents
Coordination of Internet agents
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Reflections on the Nature of Multi-Agent Coordination and Its Implications for an Agent Architecture
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Emergent Properties of a Market-based Digital Library with Strategic Agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Using Patterns to Design Rules in Workflows
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
A Knowledge-Level Model of Co-ordination
Proceedings of the First Australian Workshop on DAI: Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Architecture and Modelling
Engineering agent systems for decision support
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering: design and implementation
Objective versus subjective coordination in the engineering of agent systems
Intelligent information agents
The pragmatics of software agents: analysis and design of agent communication languages
Intelligent information agents
Co-ordination in artificial agent societies: social structures and its implications for autonomous problem-solving agents
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By adopting a structured knowledge-level approach, coordination knowledge can be ascribed to groups (societies) of system components (agents) as a whole, rather than to individuals, in order to effectively rationalise complex patterns of interaction within intelligent (multi-agent) systems. Be it either explicitly represented at the symbol-level or hard-coded within specific coordination algorithms, coordination knowledge is instrumented by a wide and heterogeneous variety of coordination models, abstractions and technologies. Coordination knowledge engineering is then about eliciting, modelling and instrumenting coordination knowledge in a principled and effective manner.In this introductory article, we briefly review two well-known frameworks to conceptualise coordination, then we discuss different dimensions along which coordination models can be classified, and analyse their impact on the design of coordination mechanisms and their supporting coordination knowledge. Finally, we sketch our view on coordination knowledge engineering and introduce the different contributions to this special issue along this line.