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Engineering Coordination: Selection of Coordination Mechanisms

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Advanced Agent Technology (AAMAS 2011)

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The reuse of code and concepts is an important aspect developing a multiagent system (MAS) and it is a driving force of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE). In particular, the reuse of mechanisms like coordination is fundamental to support developers of MASs. We will detail research done in the field of AOSE concerning the reuse of concepts and focus on the selection of suitable coordination mechanisms. The selection process for coordination mechanisms is, up to now, not covered in AOSE sufficiently. Therefore, we present the ECo-CoPS approach that defines a structured process for the selection of coordination mechanisms for plan’s of autonomous agents, where the local autonomy, as well as, the existing planning systems can be preserved. We present a case study to detail how the ECo-CoPS approach can foster the selection process.

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    René Schumann

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  1. Technische Universiteit, Sectie Filosofie, Postbus 5015, 2600, Delft, GA, The Netherlands

    Francien Dechesne

  2. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, 606-8501, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Hiromitsu Hattori

  3. Department of Software Technology, Technische Universiteit, Mekelweg 4, 2628, Delft, CD, The Netherlands

    Adriaan ter Mors

  4. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 40622, Valencia, Spain

    Jose Miguel Such

  5. Department of Computer Science, Linnaeus University, 351 95, Växjö, Sweden

    Danny Weyns

  6. University of Utrecht, PO Box 80.089, 3508 TB, Utrecht, the Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

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Schumann, R. (2012). Engineering Coordination: Selection of Coordination Mechanisms. In: Dechesne, F., Hattori, H., ter Mors, A., Such, J.M., Weyns, D., Dignum, F. (eds) Advanced Agent Technology. AAMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7068. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27216-5_12

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