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Towards next generation coordination infrastructures
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Coordination infrastructures play a central role in the engineering of multiagent systems. Since the advent of agent technology, research on coordination infrastructures has produced a significant number of infrastructures with varying features. In this paper, we review the the state-of-the-art coordination infrastructures with the purpose of identifying open research challenges that next generation coordination infrastructures should address. Our analysis concludes that next generation coordination infrastructures must address a number of challenges: (i) to become socially aware, by facilitating human interaction within a MAS; (ii) to assist agents in their decision making by providing decision support that helps them reduce the scope of reasoning and facilitates the achievement of their goals; and (iii) to increase openness to support on-line, fully decentralised design and execution. Furthermore, we identify some promising approaches in the literature, together with the research issues worth investigating, to cope with such challenges.
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RODRIGUEZ-AGUILAR, Juan A., et al. Towards next generation coordination infrastructures. Knowledge Engineering Review. 2015. Vol. 30, num. 4, pags. 1-19. ISSN 0269-8889. [consulted: 10 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/162778