One of the most appealing features of multiagent technology is its natural way to modularise a complex system in terms of multiple, interacting and autonomous components. As a natu...
In typical multiagent teamwork settings, the teammates are either programmed together, or are otherwise provided with standard communication languages and coordination protocols. ...
Software coordination models and languages describe how agents, resources and processes work together to implement a software system. One of their limitations is that they are use...
Coordinating multiple agents that need to perform a sequence of actions to maximize a system level reward requires solving two distinct credit assignment problems. First, credit m...
Global component behaviours as distinguished in Paradigm, offer the ingredients for specifying inter-component coordination in separation from and consistent with detailed compone...
Luuk Groenewegen, A. W. Stam, Pieter J. Toussaint,...