0 present participle of coordinate
1 to make many different things work effectively as a whole:
2 to match or look attractive together:
Specifically, when the various agents interact, the system behaves as a computational ecology with no single agent coordinating their actions.
This is due to the difficulties in coordinating large numbers of individual producers as opposed to a few dozen firms.
However, both offer no support for coordinating multiple activities.
In this way, the procedures are used as a basis for supporting users and for coordinating the use of agents.
Jennings et al. (2000) note that negotiation underpins any attempt at coordinating multiple agents (human or software).
Uncertain rewards, self-interested agents and a potential lack of trust while coordinating add further obstacles to the process.
Further research involves design of complex behavior, coordinating multiple behaviors, data of multi-sensor fusion, learning and adaptation in unknown environment.
Five of the benchmarks include a small number (one or two per benchmark) of explicit touch operations for coordinating side-effects.
