Real-time coordination in multi-agent systems have been studied from different perspectives of computation, communication and other aspects of coordination. Here in this position paper, we present an integrated view of coordination covering agent reasoning, message passing, resource management and negotiation. We argue for an integrated and comprehensive approach of “real-time coordination” in ...

Coordination is an important aspect of multi-agent systems (MAS). Although being decisive for many MAS applications, it is rarely modelled and implemented explicitly. Instead, coordination is realized implicitly and hard wired among other agent functionalities. Therefore, this work aims at providing an approach towards explicit coordination in MAS in which developers can focus more on what and ...

This research paper deals with Distributed Reconfigurable Embedded Control Systems (RECS) which can dynamically follow different behaviors at run-time according to user requirements or any possible evolution in its environment. We optimize a multi-agent architecture for the system in which a Reconfiguration Agent is affected to each device to apply local reconfigurations, and a Coordination Age...

The notion of agent coordination context has been introduced as a means to model and shape the space of agent interaction and communication, and the agent presence in a situated environment. This paper describes experiments in modelling and developing the notion of agent coordination context within the TuCSoN model for agent coordination, and discusses the related benefits in terms of the engin...

Coordination Artifacts are first-class software entities that encapsulate an abstract communication pattern either among Agents or between an Agent and its environment. By separating Coordination Artifacts from Agents in a Multi-Agent System (MAS), both implementations are simplified: Coordination Artifacts become an ideal means for dealing with systemic issues, while the remaining Agent code c...

Coordination infrastructures have played a central role in the engineering of multi-agent systems (MAS). Although MAS research has produced a number of notable coordination infrastructures of varying features, these have been mainly conceived to host software agents and to facilitate multi-agent programming. Thus, human agents have been mostly kept out of the picture, hence hindering the use of...

Established protocols for coordination are essential for implementing jointaction activities among collaborating software agent. Most existing agents, however, are designed only to support static protocols, which limit their interaction domain to specific sets of agents. We develop an agent collaboration framework for open systems that enables an agent to expand its acquaintance set and to adap...

Information exchange in multi-agent systems raises a multiplicity of problems, which the Internet further emphasises – heterogeneity and dynamics of information among the main ones. Knowledge scientists and engineers have proposed several solutions (mediators, information brokers, ontologies) which, roughly speaking, mainly focus on information representation, retrieval and interpretation. Mean...

What is relevant for the effectiveness of a multi-agent system is the model of the interaction between agents, rather than their peculiar internal model. The design of a single agent architecture should then concentrate on agent observable behaviour and on its interface towards the outside. A multi-agent architecture should then be designed around the choice of a suitable coordination model, ac...