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Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World III (ESAW 2002)

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Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is a promising approach to developing applications for dynamic open systems. If well developed, these applications can be opportunistic, taking advantage of services implemented by other developers at appropriate times. However, methodologies are needed to aid the development of systems that are both flexible enough to be opportunistic and tightly defined by the application requirements. In this paper, we investigate how developers can choose the coordination mechanisms of agents so that the agents will best fulfil application requirements in an open system.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, UK

    Simon Miles & Michael Luck

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Mike Joy

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  1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Agents and New Media Group, Schottengasse 3, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  2. AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme, Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Informatik, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Allegri 13, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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Miles, S., Joy, M., Luck, M. (2003). Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems. In: Petta, P., Tolksdorf, R., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World III. ESAW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2577. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39173-8_18

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