Decisions at different levels of the supply chain can no longer be considered independently, since they may influence profitability throughout the supply chain. This paper focuses on the interest of multi-agent paradigm for the collaborative coordination in global distribution supply chain. Multi-agent computational environments are suitable for a broad class of coordination and negotiation iss...

Interconnected systems have become the recent focus of intense investigation, particularly in the context of autonomous coordination, yielding fundamental advantages in adaptability, scalability, and efficiency compared to single-agent solutions. In this thesis, we investigate the topological assumptions that underly distributed multi-agent coordination, i.e., those properties defining interact...

Purpose – Smart spaces are open complex computing systems, consisting of a large variety of cooperative smart things. Central to building smart spaces is the support for sophisticated coordination among diverse smart things collaborating to accomplish specified tasks. Multi-agent systems are often used as the software infrastructures to address the coordination issue in smart spaces. However, s...

In this paper, we propose a nested Petri net approach to model the coordination of multi-agent systems. A higher level net (called host net) defines the movements and coordination mechanism of agents, while lower level nets (called agent nets that are tokens of the host net) model the behavior of individual agents. A dynamic channel concept and the notation are introduced for modeling the commu...

The BDI model is concerned with the rational action of an individual agent. At the multi-agent layer especially coordination among agents is an important factor that determines how overall system goals can be accomplished. Thus, from a software engineering perspective it is desirable to extend the BDI programming model to the multi-agent layer and make BDI concepts also useable for coordination...

It is important of Agent communication for the reality of coordination, cooperation and consistency in multi-Agent system. In this paper, an architecture of Agent communication is given. In order to decrease the working capacity to maintain the communication protocol, using the KQML as the basic Agent communication language, the paper proposes an Agent communication model based on dynamic modif...

This paper proposes a meta-level control mechanism of coordination protocols in a multi-agent system. In an open environment, an agent needs to respond to unexpected situations (exceptions). By introducing a meta-level control mechanism in the coordination protocol execution, an agent can have flexible control over the coordination with other agents. As a mete-level control mechanism, methods t...

We describe Utile Coordination, an algorithm that allows a multiagent system to learn where and how to coordinate. The method starts with uncoordinated learners and maintains statistics on expected returns. Coordination dependencies are dynamically added if the statistics indicate a statistically significant benefit. This results in a compact state representation because only necessary coordina...