Coordination & Control
No Fully General Solutions Available
Families of C & C Strategies
- Knowledge-Sharing
- Team Coordination
- Economic (Market-Driven)
- Evolutionary
Opportunities
- Flexibility, Synergy
- Advice and Constraints
- Temporal Control
- Sophisticated Facilitation, Reactive Execution
Notes:
The selection of a coordination strategy (or set of strategies) is the most fundamental challenge facing the agent framework designer, as well as the agent-based systems designer. While there is no fully general solution available, much work has already been done, and is actively being pursued.
Clearly, the systems designer should think carefully about coordination and control before selecting an agent framework or tools to work with.