[Swarm-Modelling] Re: Communication models

[Van Parunak]

Darren, Vitorino,

We offer a taxonomy of multiagent communications models that you might find 
useful in the following paper:

H. V. D. Parunak, S. Brueckner, M. Fleischer, and J. Odell. A Design 
Taxonomy of Multi-Agent Interactions. In Proceedings of Agent-Oriented 
Software Engineering IV, Melbourne, AU, pages 123-137, Springer, 2003. 
www.altarum.net/~vparunak/cox.pdf.

It categorizes agent interaction as direct vs. indirect and centralized vs. 
decentralized; stigmergy falls into the indirect decentralized category. It 
also relates communication to broader issues of correlation, coordination, 
cooperation, and coherence.

Best,
Van Parunak


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