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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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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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