Defining coordination in multi-agent systems within an agent oriented software engineering methodology
Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Juán Pavón · 2006
Though interactions could be considered a key entity in the design and implementation of coordination in a multi-agent system (MAS), interactions alone do not suffice to capture the coordination view of a MAS. They are related with the evolution of agent mental states, through the execution of tasks, and determined by the context of the organization to which agents belong. Therefore, a complete specification of interactions should be more that a mere definition of a set of ordered messages. In this paper we present a semiformal description of interactions as first-class entities, and the contribution of other components of a MAS to this definition. Also, we present its computational realization, as a tool to animate and monitor the execution of specifications.