Rodriguez-Aguilar, Juan A.Sierra, Carles, 1963-Arcos, Josep LluisLópez Sánchez, MaiteRodríguez Santiago, Inmaculada2020-05-282020-05-282015-09-030269-8889https://hdl.handle.net/2445/162778Coordination 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.19 p.application/pdfeng(c) Cambridge University Press, 2015Sistemes multiagentAgents intel·ligents (Programes d'ordinador)Multiagent systemsIntelligent agents (Computer software)info:eu-repo/semantics/article6181612020-05-28info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess