This paper presents the basic concepts behind AgenTalk, a language used for describing coordination protocols in multiagent systems. Many coordination protocols such as the contract net protocol have been proposed, and many application specific coordination protocols are expected to be required as soon as building of more software agents begins. Thus, a language for defining and implementing su...

Green agriculture is an important issue in agricultural development. The farming cooperative frequently chooses to improve its green innovation level of products support the growth agriculture. Based on characteristics contract farming, this paper establishes a decision-making objective function for cooperatives considering and uses Stackelberg game method analyze behavior supply chain particip...

Today many companies rely on third party applications and application services for (part of) their information systems. When applications from different parties are used together, an integration problem arises. Similarly, cross-organisational application integration requires the coordination of distributed processing across several autonomous applications. In this paper, we describe an integrat...

In this paper, we explore the issue of coordination in a manufacturer-retailer supply chain where the manufacturer is socially responsible and invests in CSR activities. On the other hand, the retailer invests in promotional efforts and uses a periodic review order-up-to policy for replenishing items. First, the decentralized decision-making structure is modeled to calculate the minimum accepta...

In this paper, seller-buyer supply chain coordination with general side-payment contracts is introduced to gain the maximum possible chain profit. In our model, the logistics costs for both buyer and seller are considered and the final demand is also supposed to be a decreasing function of the retail price. Since parties aim to maximize their individual profits, the contractual parameters are s...

The good performance of a set of computer systems based on agents depends on the coherence degree and coordination between their activities. The study of coordination problem is an important topic for designers and researchers in the multi-agents systems field. There are several coordination mechanisms in the current literature, being the auction and the contract net the most popular ones. Thes...

For distributed object or component systems based on CORBA or DCOM, a suitable software architecture and a strong separation of modules is necessary. Our object coordination net approach (OCoN) allows mixed event and state based true concurrent modeling. It describes contracts, object scheduling, resource handling and the abstract data and control flow of services. A seam-data and control flow ...