On the Notion of Agent Coordination Context: Preliminary Notes

From Human to Agent Societies There is no (apparent) need to advocate any anthropomorphic principle to reason about agents. Analogy is enough to drive comparisons and possibly help us foreseeing the evolution of agent systems. More than ten thousands years have seen humans evolve as situated, speaking, specialisable, and context-aware entities, co-existing and interacting within societies, deeply immersed within environments. Latest results from historical sciences [1] tell us that, after millions years of biological evolution, cultural and social evolution have become predominant – where social evolution basically means organisational changes in the social structure. Also, the role of the environment is reckoned, as a dynamic and active force that drives the evolution of human societies, and also affects the ability of both individuals and social structures to survive, grow, and possibly overcome the others. In turn, the evolution of the environment is partially under human’s control. So, depending on their understanding of the environment and of its dynamics, individuals and societies might plan and act so as to affect environment’s changes over time, and survive and grow according to their ability in modelling and building / modifying their own environment.