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Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide a well-founded approach to the engineering of situated systems, where governing the interaction of a multiplicity of autonomous, distributed components with the environment represents one of the most critical issues. By interpreting situatedness as a coordination issue, in this paper we describe the TuCSoN coordination architecture for situated MAS, and show how the corresponding TuCSoN coordination technology can be effectively used for engineering MAS environment.
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Mariani, S., Omicini, A. (2014). Coordination in Situated Systems: Engineering MAS Environment in TuCSoN . In: Fortino, G., Di Fatta, G., Li, W., Ochoa, S., Cuzzocrea, A., Pathan, M. (eds) Internet and Distributed Computing Systems. IDCS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8729. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11692-1_9
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