Book Chapter10.1007/978-3-662-04401-8_1
Coordination models: a guided tour
Nadia Busi,Paolo Ciancarini,Roberto Gorrieri,Gianluigi Zavattaro +3 more
- 01 Mar 2001
- pp 6-24
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TL;DR: A framework general enough to be able to capture the main ideas underlying the major coordination models for agents is defined, based on three key concepts: the coordinables, the coordination medium, and the coordination rules.
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Abstract: In this paper we survey and discuss a number of coordination models for agents. We define a framework general enough to be able to capture the main ideas underlying the major coordination models for agents. The framework is based on three key concepts: the coordinables, the coordination medium, and the coordination rules. We start modeling a simple dataspace-based model. Then we structure our discussion along three directions: more advanced coordination primitives exploitable by the coordinales, reshaping the coordination medium, and programming the coordination rules.
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