Models of Coordination

While software is becoming decomposed in more and more finegrained entities, the interactions amongst those become of major importance. While methodologies for building such components are well established, the design and support of their interplay can not build on commonly understood and well defined models. In this paper, we review several coordination models from various disciplines, and describe how a coordination reference model could look like. We use a set of characteristics of coordination models to compare the reviewed ones. 1 Looking at Models of Coordination Todays software is structured into modules, objects, components, agents etc. These entito capture rather small conceptual abstractions and supports it with functionality. While this is advantageous for the design and implementation of software, networked environments add additional benefits when running programs composed from those entities. Given a good encapsulation, they can be distributed or mobile, and different non...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ESAW
• Authors: Robert Tolksdorf
• Keywords: Coordination Models, Coordination Reference Model, Coordination Todays Software, ESAW 2000, Intelligent Agents