0 the act of making all the people involved in a plan or activity work together in an organized way -- 協調，調節
First, coordination artifacts realize a coordination activity by applying some kind of (coordination) laws ruling agent interactions.
The coordination in such an environment stems from interaction-induced actions.
In transportation networks, unnecessary costs are incurred when coordination between dispatchers fails, and when vehicles are not utilized to their capacity as often as possible.
In the 1970s and 1980s a few political scientists and sociologists had started to question centralization and coordination.
Co-ordination between teams working on different organs is often necessary in case of multiple-organ harvesting.
Does it matter if coordination efforts pertain to 15 thousand new immigrants a year, as opposed to a hundred thousand?
Given the extreme concentration of formal powers at the national level, little coordination could take place in local government.
The ethos of coordination is to do the right thing at the right time for the right reasons.
