The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction
Coordination mechanisms: towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on the design of cooperative systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Models and technologies for the coordination of Internet agents: a survey
Coordination of Internet agents
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Verification Framework for Agent Communication
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Customizable Coordination Service for Autonomous Agents
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Multiagent System Engineering: The Coordination Viewpoint
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
The Psi Calculus: An Algebraic Agent Language
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
A preliminary taxonomy of multi-agent interactions
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The artificial life roots of artificial intelligence
Artificial Life
Activity theory as a framework for MAS coordination
ESAW'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Engineering societies in the agents world III
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Implicit environment-based coordination in pervasive computing
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Coordination and composition in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Environments in multiagent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Artifacts for time-aware agents
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Integrating agent-oriented methodologies with UML-AT
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A survey of autonomic communications
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Agent-environment interaction in a multi-agent system: a formal model
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
A formal road from institutional norms to organizational structures
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Give agents their artifacts: the A&A approach for engineering working environments in MAS
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Model integration in agent-oriented development
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
A&A for modelling and engineering simulations in Systems Biology
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Prototyping Concurrent Systems with Agents and Artifacts: Framework and Core Calculus
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Designing modular architectures in the framework AKIRA
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Special Issue on Nature inspired systems for parallel, asynchronous and decentralised environments
Validating MAS simulation models with mutation
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Multi-agent systems for medicine, computational biology, and bioinformatics
Timed environment for web agents
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Building computational institutions for agents with RoleX
Artificial Intelligence and Law
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR RBAC-MAS: AN APPROACH BASED ON AGENT COORDINATION CONTEXTS
Applied Artificial Intelligence
Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Practical Issues in Detecting Broken Social Commitments
Agent Communication II
Coordinating Tasks in Agent Organizations
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Spatially Distributed Normative Objects
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II
Situating Cognitive Agents in GOLEM
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Environment Support to the Management of Context Awareness Information
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
simpA: A Simple Agent-Oriented Java Extension for Developing Concurrent Applications
Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
A Distributed Normative Infrastructure for Situated Multi-agent Organisations
Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VI
Motivation for a new formal framework for agent-oriented software engineering
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Situated tuple centres in ReSpecT
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
The agent environment in multi-agent systems: A middleware perspective
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
Roles and norms for programming agent organizations
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Fast track article: Game-based e-retailing in GOLEM agent environments
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Agens Faber: Toward a Theory of Artefacts for MAS
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Engineering open environments with electronic institutions
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Specifying and monitoring economic environments using rights and obligations
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Instrumenting multi-agent organisations with organisational artifacts and agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Designing institutional multi-agent systems
AOSE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering VII
CArtAgO: a framework for prototyping artifact-based environments in MAS
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Environmental support for tag interactions
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Cognitive stigmergy: towards a framework based on agents and artifacts
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
E4MAS through electronic institutions
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Spatially distributed normative infrastructure
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
COIN'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems III
The A&A programming model and technology for developing agent environments in MAS
ProMAS'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
Agents, intelligence and tools
Artificial intelligence
Co-argumentation artifact for agent societies
ArgMAS'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Argumentation in multi-agent systems
Role evolution in Open Multi-Agent Systems as an information source for trust
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
simpA: An agent-oriented approach for programming concurrent applications on top of Java
Science of Computer Programming
Implementing collective obligations in human-agent teams using KAoS policies
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Context-aware process mining framework for business process flexibility
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
Review: coordination models and languages: From parallel computing to self-organisation
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Social-based planning model for multiagent systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Environment programming in multi-agent systems: an artifact-based perspective
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
JaCa-Android: an agent-based platform for building smart mobile applications
LADS'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Languages, methodologies, and development tools for multi-agent systems
An interaction-oriented agent framework for open environments
AI*IA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Artificial intelligence around man and beyond
An organisation infrastructure for multi-agent systems based on agent coordination contexts
AI*IA'05 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
SILENT AGENTS: from observation to tacit communication
IBERAMIA-SBIA'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international joint conference, and Proceedings of the 10th Ibero-American Conference on AI 18th Brazilian conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Environments for multiagent systems state-of-the-art and research challenges
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Environment-based coordination through coordination artifacts
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Agent interaction semantics by timed operating instructions
AC'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Agent Communication
An agent-oriented conceptual framework for systems biology
Transactions on Computational Systems Biology III
A functional taxonomy for artifacts
HAIS'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems - Volume Part II
T-compound interaction and overhearing agents
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Time-aware coordination in ReSpecT
COORDINATION'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages
Negotiating gestalt: artistic expression by coalition formation between agents
SG'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Smart Graphics
Coordination artifacts as first-class abstractions for MAS engineering: state of the research
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Analysis and design of physical and social contexts in multi-agent systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Distributed workflow upon linkable coordination artifacts
COORDINATION'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages
Grounding social interactions in the environment
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Programming MAS with artifacts
ProMAS'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
AAMAS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multi-Agent Systems
Engineering coordination: selection of coordination mechanisms
AAMAS'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advanced Agent Technology
Action and perception in agent programming languages: from exogenous to endogenous environments
ProMAS'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Programming Multi-Agent Systems
The cognitive and behavioral mediation of institutions: Towards an account of institutional actions
Cognitive Systems Research
Multi-agent oriented programming with JaCaMo
Science of Computer Programming
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Direct interaction and explicit communication are not always the best approaches for achieving coherent systemic behaviour in the context of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). This is evident when taking into account recent approaches dealing with environment-based coordination such as stigmergy and, more generally, mediated interaction. In this paper we propose a conceptual, formal and engineering framework based on the notion of coordination artifact, which aims at generally systematising implicit communication and environment-based coordination for heterogeneous, possibly intelligent agents. The features and benefits of our approach are exemplified in the Follow-me situation, where an agentýs action/plan is considered as a model for the action/plan of other agents. We model this class of problems in terms of coordination artifacts, from simple to more challenging cases, stressing the advantages with respect to more "standard" MAS approaches.