Coordination in Situated Systems: Engineering MAS Environment in TuCSoN

Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide a well-founded approach to the engineering of situated systems, where governing the interaction of a multiplicity of autonomous, distributed components with the environment represents one of the most critical issues. By interpreting situatedness as a coordination issue, in this paper we describe the TuCSoN coordination architecture for situated MAS, and show how the corresponding TuCSoN coordination technology can be effectively used for engineering MAS environment.