@conference {3733, title = {Coordination Support in MAS}, booktitle = {8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 09)}, year = {2009}, month = {10/05/2009}, pages = {1301-1302}, publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems}, organization = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems}, address = {Budapest, Hungary}, abstract = {We propose the term Coordination Support to denote the services offered by the infrastructure used to deploy MultiAgent Systems (MAS). In fact, these services provide a means to enact the coordination model defined in MAS design. We detail Coordination Support{\textquoteright}s functionalities and group them into different layers. Furthermore we extend them and propose an additional Assistance layer devoted to assist coordination rather than to enable it. Assistance{\textquoteright}s functionalities range from providing information {\textendash}about the coordination model and its state{\textendash} to adapting agents{\textquoteright} organisation.}, isbn = {978-0-9817381-5-4}, author = {Jordi Campos and Maite L{\'o}pez-S{\'a}nchez and Marc Esteva} }