Coordination is an important aspect to realize Self-organizing Systems usually implemented as part of the functional properties of the system. This paper promotes a separation of concerns via a declarative approach to realize decentralized coordination in Self-organizing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). In previous work the concept of Coordination Spaces was developed which provides explicit support ...

In team Markov games research, it is difficult for an individual agent to calculate the reward of collaborative agents dynamically. We present a coordination tree structure whose nodes are agent subsets or an agent. Two kinds of weights of a tree are defined which describe the cost of an agent collaborating with an agent subset. We can calculate a collaborative agent subset and its minimal cost...

Traditional planning has been explored in depth. Most research is concentrated at a high level, e.g., developing coordination interaction protocols to be imposed on agents. There has been less concern about how the internal task structures of individual agents affect these higher-level coordination behaviors. When involving multiple participants, collaborative planning has been facing problems ...

In this paper we consider the multi-agent systems (MAS) scenario where agents do not only cooperate by direct, communicative speech acts, but may also interact with coordination artifacts — embodied entities dynamically provided by the MAS infrastructure to realise specific coordination rules. We study a semantics for this kind of interaction, based on the idea that agents exploit the coordinat...

Agent coordination is the ability to manage the interdependencies of activities between agents while agent cooperation is the process used for an agent to voluntarily enter a relationship with another to achieve a system derived goal. We describe and show the concepts of Coordinative Cooperation and Cooperative Coordination using examples. These concepts demonstrate the ability for intelligent ...

Internet-based multi-agent systems call for new metaphors, abstractions, methodologies and enabling technologies specifically tailored to agent-oriented engineering. While coordination models define the framework to manage the space of agent interaction, ruling social behaviours and accomplishing social tasks, their impact on system design and development calls for an effective coordination tec...

This paper presents an approach for multi-robot coordination based both on coordinated navigation and task allocation method. An ad hoc agent based architecture is defined in order to implement the robot control system in both simulation and real applications. The coordination of the multi-robot system is based on agent interaction and negotiation, and a communication infrastructure based on op...

Intelligent agents are a powerful technology with many significant applications and are starting to assume more responsible in more critical tasks. One of the most important uses of agent technology is for problem–solving coordination. Coordination has been defined as managing the interdependencies between activities, ordering and locating actions in time in an attempt to maximize a possibly ch...

In order for multi-agent systems to exhibit global coherence the agents must coordinate their activities or be limited to a problem space in which activities are highly independent. In the elder care domain, global coherence across the agent system responsible for giving the care requires coordination if only because the different agents in the system interact over a set of shared resources, na...

Multi-agent coordination is an important and complicated process. This paper proposes a layered approach to coordination in which low-level domain independent coordination and scheduling modules deal with detailed temporal and resource constraints and high-level controllers focus on domain issues and domain state. A general agent architecture is described based on this agent control model. The ...