1. Preamble

The Multi-Agent Coordination course endow students with a general understanding on multi-agent coordination models. Those models are used to coordinate decentralized and open complex systems, such as, cyber-physical social systems.

Taking a multi-agent oriented perspective on coordination of complex systems, this course presents models pertaining to agent-, interaction-, environment- and organization-centred coordination. Besides learning foundations and state of the art works on this topic, students will learn how to program some of these models for developing Decentralized and Open AI systems.

Note

JaCaMo platform is used on the practical exercises of this course.

2. Course Organization

Date

Lectures

Practical Work

October 24, 2025 9h00-12h15 / O. Boissier

Introduction to MAS and Coordination

November 06, 2025 13h30-16h45 / O. Boissier

Agent-centric Coordination

  • Multi-Agent Planning

  • Dependence Reasoning

  • Trust and Reputation

Introduction to Agent-Centric coordination

Practical Work

References

November 07, 2025 09h00-12h15 / L. G. Nardin, E. Yan

Project description with planning

November 13, 2025 13h30-16h45 / E. Yan

Organization-centric Coordination

Practical Work

References

November 14, 2025 13h30-16h45 / L. G. Nardin, E. Yan

Support to the project

November 20, 2025 13h30-16h45 / E. Yan

Environment-centric Coordination

Practical Work

References

November 21, 2025 9h00-12h15 / L. G. Nardin, E. Yan

Support to the project

November 27, 2025 13h30-16h45 / L. G. Nardin

Interaction-centric Coordination (1)

Introduction to Interaction-Centric coordination

  • Introduction

  • Speech Acts Theory

  • Agent Communication Language

  • Slides will be available before lecture

Practical Work

References

November 28, 2025 9h00-12h15 / L. G. Nardin, E. Yan

Support to the project

December 04, 2025 13h30-16h45 / L. G. Nardin

Interaction-centric Coordination (2)

Introduction to Interaction-Centric coordination

  • Ontologies

  • Interaction Protocols

    • Request Protocol

    • Contract Net Protocol

Practical Work

References

December 09, 2025 13h30-16h45 / L. G. Nardin, E. Yan

Support to the project

December 12, 2025 9h00-12h15

Presentation of readings

3. Readings

  • Each group of 2 students chooses 1 (one) paper from the list in eCampus

  • Elaborate the presentation slides

  • Submit the presentation slides by December 09, 2025 at 23h59

  • Presentation

    • The group will deliver the presentation on December 12, 2025

    • The presentation should last at most 20 minutes

    • The presentation will have a 10 minutes Q&A session

Date Time Group Paper

December 12, 2025

9h00 - 9h30

Hind Makarem, Ayoub Heddabou

Agent’s Cooperation Levels to Enhance Human-Robot Teaming

9h30-10h00

João Pedro Marcal Storino, Walid Abdela

Multi-paradigm Coordination for MAS: Integrating Heterogeneous Coordination Approaches in MAS Technologies

10h00-10h30

Maphineth Ung, Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen

Verifying Multi-agent Coordination Correctness for BDI Agents

10h45-11h15

Sajid Sajid, Irfan Ullah

Kiko: Programming Agents to Enact Interaction Protocols

11h15-11h45

Mohammadamin Norouzi, Raphael Fernandes

An Abstract Framework for Non-Cooperative Multi-Agent Planning

11h45-12h15

Amna Amna, Hema Devika Putta

Trust Evaluation Through Relationship Analysis

4. Project

5. Grading policy

  • 20% answers to the questions in the practical work sessions

  • 30% on the presentation of readings

  • 50% on the project

6. Resources

6.1. Installing and Configuring the JaCaMo platform

6.2. Additional Resources