The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Meta-models for building multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Agent Oriented Analysis Using Message/UML
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Environment-based coordination through coordination artifacts
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
A collection of method fragments automated with model transformations in agent-oriented modeling
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Though interactions could be considered a key entity in the design and implementation of coordination in a multi-agent system (MAS), interactions alone do not suffice to capture the coordination view of a MAS. They are related with the evolution of agent mental states, through the execution of tasks, and determined by the context of the organization to which agents belong. Therefore, a complete specification of interactions should be more that a mere definition of a set of ordered messages. In this paper we present a semiformal description of interactions as first-class entities, and the contribution of other components of a MAS to this definition. Also, we present its computational realization, as a tool to animate and monitor the execution of specifications.