@InCollection{jennings96a,
  author =	 {Nick R. Jennings},
  title =	 {Coordination Techniques for Distributed Artificial
                  Intelligence,},
  googleid =	 {URy1mXVPNcAJ:scholar.google.com/},
  booktitle =	 {Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence},
  pages =	 {187--210},
  publisher =	 {Wiley},
  year =	 1996,
  editor =	 {G. M. P. O'Hare and N. R. Jennings},
  comment =	 {Nick summarizes the state of the art, circa 1995, of
                  coordination techniques for DAI. All this research
                  is still relevant, even if not timely.},
  abstract =	 {Coordination, the process by which an agent reasons
                  about its local actions and the (anticipated)
                  actions of others to try and ensure the community
                  acts in a coherent manner, is perhaps the key
                  problem of the discipline of Distributed Artificial
                  Intelligence (DAI). In order to make advances it is
                  important that the theories and principles which
                  guide this central activity are uncovered and
                  analysed in a systematic and rigourous manner. To
                  this end, this paper models agent communities using
                  a distributed goal search formalism, and argues that
                  commitments (pledges to undertake a specific course
                  of action) and conventions (means of monitoring
                  commitments in changing circumstances) are the
                  foundation of coordination in all DAI systems.},
  keywords =     {multiagent planning survey},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/jennings96a.pdf},
  cluster = 	 {13850063595556379729}
}