C12 – Coordination in Multi-agent Systems

presented by Elena Nardini

Coordination in MAS: the environment as a first-class abstraction, coordination models from data-driven to control-driven and tuple spaces, the TuCSoN infrastructure, and the notion of agent coordination context.

course of the deck
Course_icon.svg Multi-Agent Systems LS (2nd cycle, 2008/2009) — Andrea Omicini
used in the lectures
reference publication
Publication_icon.svg Situated Tuple Centres in ReSpecT (paper in proceedings, 2009) — Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Coordination Models and Languages as Software Integrators (article in journal, 1996) — Paolo Ciancarini
Publication_icon.svg Multi-Agent Systems on the Internet: Extending the Scope of Coordination towards Security and Topology (paper in proceedings, 1999) — Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Publication_icon.svg Generative Communication in Linda (article in journal, 1985) — David Gelernter
Publication_icon.svg Coordination Languages and Their Significance (article in journal, 1992) — David Gelernter, Nicholas Carriero
Publication_icon.svg An Agent-based Approach for Building Complex Software Systems (article in journal, 2001) — Nicholas R. Jennings
Publication_icon.svg Introduction to This Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing (article in journal, 2001) — Thomas Moran, Paul Dourish
Publication_icon.svg On the Notion of Agent Coordination Context: Preliminary Notes (article in journal, 2001) — Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Towards a Notion of Agent Coordination Context (book chapter, 2002) — Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg From Tuple Spaces to Tuple Centres (article in journal, 2001) — Andrea Omicini, Enrico Denti
Publication_icon.svg Reasoning about Organisation: Shaping the Infrastructure (article in journal, 2003) — Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci
Publication_icon.svg MAS Organisation within a Coordination Infrastructure: Experiments in TuCSoN (paper in proceedings, 2004) — Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci
Publication_icon.svg RBAC for Organisation and Security in an Agent Coordination Infrastructure (paper in proceedings, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli
Publication_icon.svg Coordination for Internet Application Development (article in journal, 1999) — Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Publication_icon.svg Coordination Models and Languages (book chapter, 1998) — George A. Papadopoulos, Farhad Arbab
Publication_icon.svg Agent Coordination Contexts: Experiments in TuCSoN (paper in proceedings, 2002) — Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Agent Coordination Contexts in a MAS Coordination Infrastructure (article in journal, 2006) — Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini
Publication_icon.svg Mixed Programming Metaphors in a Shared Dataspace Model of Concurrency (article in journal, 1990) — Gruia-Catalin Roman, H. Conrad Cunningham
Publication_icon.svg Environment as a First-class Abstraction in Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2007) — Danny Weyns, Andrea Omicini, James J. Odell
Publication_icon.svg Towards a Paradigm Change in Computer Science and Software Engineering: A Synthesis (article in journal, 2003) — Franco Zambonelli, H. Van Dyke Parunak