good solutions to complex problems. In many examples, individuals trying to solve superior global solution. This suggests that there may be general principles of information aggre...
This paper introduces an executable coordination specification language, which is able to handle prespecified ways as well as more flexible and generic ways of specifying coordina...
Tibor Bosse, Mark Hoogendoorn, Radu Serban, Jan Tr...
Abstract. There are many domains in which a multi-agent system needs to maximize a "system utility" function which rates the performance of the entire system, while subje...
AbstractWe describe Utile Coordination, an algorithm that allows a multiagent system to learn where and how to coordinate. The method starts with uncoordinated learners and maintai...
Jelle R. Kok, Pieter Jan't Hoen, Bram Bakker, Niko...
Mobile active computational entities introduce peculiar problems in the coordination of distributed application components. The paper surveys several coordination models for mobil...