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Lightweight Coordination Calculus for Agent Systems: Retrospective and Prospective

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The Lightweight Coordination Calculus was presented in a paper to DALT 2004 as a method for specifying a class of social norms for multi-agent systems. This was intended for use in the engineering of a range of applications but at the time the original paper was written this was an aspiration and we had little experience of actual use of the method. In this paper I summarise how experience with this approach has developed in the seven years from 2004 to date.

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  1. Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

    David Robertson

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  1. Department of computer and Communication Sciences, Wakayama University, 930 Sakaedani, 640-8510, Wakayama, Japan

    Chiaki Sakama

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, PO Box GPO Box 2476V, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Sebastian Sardina

  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Meston Building, AB24 3UE, Aberdeen, UK

    Wamberto Vasconcelos

  4. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, PO Box 56, 9054, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Michael Winikoff

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Robertson, D. (2012). Lightweight Coordination Calculus for Agent Systems: Retrospective and Prospective. In: Sakama, C., Sardina, S., Vasconcelos, W., Winikoff, M. (eds) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IX. DALT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7169. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29113-5_7

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