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Commitments and Conventions: The Foundation of Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems (1993)  (Make Corrections)  (146 citations)
Nick R. Jennings
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Abstract: Distributed Artificial Intelligence systems, in which multiple agents interact to improve their individual performance and to enhance the system's overall utility, are becoming an increasingly pervasive means of conceptualising a diverse range of applications. As the discipline matures, researchers are beginning to strive for the underlying theories and principles which guide the central processes of coordination and cooperation. Here agent communities are modelled using a distributed goal... (Update)

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N. R. Jennings. Commitments and conventions: The foundation of coordination in multiagent systems. Knowledge Engineering Review, 8(3):223--250, 1993. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/jennings93commitments.html   More

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    author = "N. R. Jennings",
    title = "Commitments and Conventions: The Foundation of Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems",
    journal = "The Knowledge Engineering Review",
    volume = "8",
    number = "3",
    pages = "223--250",
    year = "1993",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/jennings93commitments.html" }
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