Socially-aware lightweight coordination infrastructures
Marc Esteva, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Josep Lluís Arcos, Carles Sierra · DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) · 2011
Abstract. Coordination infrastructures have played a central role in the engineering of multi-agent systems (MAS). Although MAS research has produced a number of notable coordination infrastructures of varying features, these have been mainly conceived to host software agents and to facilitate multi-agent programming. Thus, human agents have been mostly kept out of the picture, hence hindering the use of agent-oriented infrastructures for the coordination of hybrid multi-agent systems. More-over, current MAS tools supporting coordination heavily rely on a ded-icated infrastructure. In this work we touch upon these two issues. On the one hand, we analyse the kind of coordination support required by humans in a hybrid multi-agent system. On the other hand, we propose how to achieve coordination with little, lightweight infrastructure. 1