Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent System Engineering

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      Pages 1-8

3. Positioning

   1. Multi-Agent Systems

      Pages 9-32

   2. Coordination Models and Languages

      Pages 33-52

4. ECM and Its Instances

   1. The ECM Coordination Model

      Pages 53-60

   2. The STL Coordination Language

      Pages 61-68

   3. The STL++ Coordination Language

      Pages 69-96

   4. The Agent & Co Coordination Language

      Pages 97-104

5. Case Studies in STL++

   1. Collective Robotics Simulation

      Pages 105-114

   2. Trading System Simulation

      Pages 115-120

   3. Conclusion

      Pages 121-124

6. Back Matter

   Pages 125-149

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Based on a suitably defined coordination model distinguishing between objective (inter-agent) coordination and subjective (intra-agent) coordination, this book addresses the engineering of multi-agent systems and thus contributes to closing the gap between research and applications in agent technology. After reviewing the state of the art, the author introduces the general coordination model ECM and the corresponding object-oriented coordination language STL++. The practicability of ECM/STL++ is illustrated by the simulation of a particular collective robotics application and the automation of an e-commerce trading system.
Situated at the intersection of behavior-based artificial intelligence and concurrent and distributed systems, this monograph is of relevance to the agent R&D community approaching agent technology from the distributed artificial intelligence point of view as well as for the distributed systems community.

• Simula
• artificial intelligence
• design
• distributed systems
• intelligence
• multi-agent system
• robot
• robotics
• simulation

• Berninastrasse 85, Switzerland

  Michael Schumacher

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