Co-ordinating Co-ordination: The European Commission and the Culture Open Method of Co-ordination

Independence and Co-ordination –

* The views expressed in this paper are personal. Most outsiders tend to base their analysis of the future of the Eurosystem on the shape of the Federal Reserve System in the US. This paper argues that the US model is inappropriate. It suggests that the Eurosystem is pursuing a different arrangement, where the balance of power in the national central banks rather than in the centre may continue...

Co-ordination and Specialisation

This paper addresses the problem of division of labour as an evolutionary process in which co-ordinated agents attempt problem-solving as a search in problem space. Co-ordination stress and learning trigger adaptation but as complexity rises radical solutions are sought prompting radical organisational as well as technological change. The analytical issues involved are further explored by resor...

Tax co-ordination and the enlargement of the European Union

In this paper the concept of tax co-ordination within the European Union (EU) is discussed, in view of the coming enlargement of the EU. The tax externalities that possibly arise in a single market are analysed, as well as the ways these externalities can be prevented or internalised. These theoretical reflections are placed alongside the actual system of tax co-ordination within the EU. Focusi...

Co-ordination Patterns & Functional Recovery

Mobile Co-ordination: Providing Fault Tolerance in Tuple Space Based Co-ordination Languages

In this paper we describe the concept of mobile coordination , a general purpose approach to overcoming failure of agents when using distributed tuple spaces. We demonstrate why mobile coordination is better than using existing techniques such as transactions, how mobile coordination can provide extra functionality in the form of agent wills, and how the framework to provide this can be impleme...