Integrated Multi- Agent Coordination
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Much work in multi-agent systems focuses on coordinating the activities of agents so that the end result approximates the solutions possible if one were to centralize the activities being carried out by these agents. Research into coordination has taken different forms: negotiation, scheduling, planning, organizational approaches, etc. Multi-agent coordination, defined as managing inter-dependencies between activities (Malone & Crowston, 1994), addresses the special issues arising from the relationships between multiple agents’ tasks. We define interdependency as a relationship between agents’ tasks, where the execution of one changes some performance-related characteristics associated with the other. This definition gives rise to the following questions: (1) how are the dependencies ABSTRACT
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