Integrating Agent Development Frameworks for Objective and Subjective Coordination: Experiments with TuCSoN and JADE

Coordination in multi agent systems follows a twofold approach: subjective coordination charges coordination issues upon individual participants, whereas objective coordination encapsulates coordination laws within coordination artefacts outside the coordinated agents. In this paper, we explore a possible integration of the two approaches as they are implemented by two well-known agent technologies: TuCSoN, for the objective approach, and Jade, for subjective coordination. In particular, we show how to coherently integrate Jade behaviour model with TuCSoN coordination model.