RA2: Macro/society-level issues in agent technology

2.2 Coordination
2.2.1 Coordination techniques and protocols

Bourne R. A., Excelente-Toledo C. B. and Jennings N. R. (2000) "Run-Time Selection of Coordination Mechanisms in Multi-Agent Systems" Proc. 14th European Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000), Berlin, Germany, 348-352.

Cabri G., Leonardi L. and Zambonelli F., "MARS: a Programmable Coordination Architecture for Mobile Agents ", IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 4, No. 4, July 2000.

Ciancarini P., Omicini A. and Zambonelli F., "Multi-agent Systems Engineering: the Coordination Viewpoint", in Intelligent Agents VI, LNAI n. 1767, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

Excelente-Toledo C. B., Bourne R. A. and Jennings N. R. (2001) "Reasoning about commitments and penalties for coordination between autonomous agents" Proc. 5th Int Conf on Autonomous Agents (Agents-2001), Montreal, Canada. (to appear)

Fatima S. S. and Wooldridge M., Adaptive Task and Resource Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems. In Agents 2001: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents Montreal, Canada May/June 2001.

Jennings N. R., Pople J. A. and Mamdani E. H.: "Designing a Re-Usable Coordination Module for Cooperative Industrial Control Applications", IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and Applications, 143(1), 1996, 91-102.

Jennings N. R.: Commitments and Conventions: The Foundation of Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 8 (3), 1993, 223-250.

Jennings N. R.: Coordination Techniques for Distributed Artificial Intelligence, in Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence(eds. O'Hare G. M. P. and Jennings N. R.), Wiley, 1996, 187-210.

Jennings N. R.: Coordination Through Joint Intentions in Industrial Multi-Agent Systems, AI Magazine, 14 (4), 1993, 79-80.

Mamei M., Zambonelli F. and Leonardi L. "A Physically Grounded Approach to Coordinate Movements in a Team ",1st International Workshop on Mobile Teamwork (at ICDCS) , IEEE CS Press, 2002.

Nwana H. S., Lee L. C. and Jennings N. R., (1996) "Coordination in Software Agent Systems" The British Telecom Technical Journal, 14 (4) 79-88.

Zambonelli F., Cabri G. and Leonardi L., "Programmable Coordination Infrastructures for Mobility", 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering and Mobility, Toronto (CA), May 2001.