A survey on Teamwork of Autonomous Agents: Theories, Frameworks and Specification Languages (Part 2)

Autonomous agents and multi–agent systems research are stimulated, in many respects, by modern robotics. Within the latter, one of the hottest problems is coordination of teamwork of autonomous agents intended for execution of a mission. At the same time, this aspect of multi–agent systems is the source of a number of the most difficult tasks. The paper is devoted to a brief survey on and analysis of the current state–of–the–art concerning with theories (part 1), frameworks and supporting reusable software, as well as to a comparative overview of the languages aimed at specification of the teamwork aspects of autonomous agents (part 2).