@Article{lesser04a,
  author =	 {Victor Lesser and Keith Decker and Tom Wagner and
                  N. Carver and A. Garvey and Brian Horling and
                  D. Neiman and R. Podorozhny and M. Nagendra Prasad
                  and Anita Raja and Regis Vincent and P. Xuan and
                  X. Q. Zhang},
  title =	 {Evolution of the {GPGP/TAEMS} Domain-Independent
                  Coordination Framework},
  journal =	 {Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Sytems,},
  year =	 2004,
  volume =	 9,
  pages =	 {87--143},
  abstract =	 {The GPGP/TAEMS domain-independent coordination
                  framework for small agent groups was first described
                  in 1992 and then more fully detailed in an ICMAS’95
                  paper. In this paper, we discuss the evolution of
                  this framework which has been motivated by its use
                  in a number of applications, including: information
                  gathering and management, intelligent home
                  automation, distributed situation assessment,
                  coordination of concurrent engineering activities,
                  hospital scheduling, travel planning, repair service
                  coordination and supply chain management. First, we
                  review the basic architecture of GPGP and then
                  present extensions to the TAEMS domain-independent
                  representation of agent activities. We next describe
                  extensions to GPGP that permit the representation of
                  situation-specific coordination strategies and
                  social laws as well as making possible the use of
                  GPGP in large agent organizations. Additionally, we
                  discuss a more encompassing view of commitments that
                  takes into account uncertainty in commitments. We
                  then present new coordination mechanisms for use in
                  resource sharing and contracting, and more complex
                  coordination mechanisms that use a cooperative
                  search among agents to find appropriate
                  commitments. We conclude with a summary of the major
                  ideas underpinning GPGP, an analysis of the
                  applicability of the GPGP framework including
                  performance issues, and a discussion of future
                  research directions.},
  keywords =     {multiagent planning survey},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/lesser04a.pdf},
  googleid = 	 {jprIeeKUTUoJ:scholar.google.com/},
  doi = 	 {10.1023/B:AGNT.0000019690.28073.04},
  cluster = 	 {5354099232440097422}
}