Why it matters

Coordination shapes efficiency. Understanding shapes design.

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The architecture

Central: dispatcher.

Distributed: negotiation.

Market: bidding.

Consensus: voting.

Coordination mechanismsCentral dispatchhierarchicalDistributedpeer-to-peerMarket / consensusbidding / votingChoose per problem complexity + scalability + failure tolerance
Multi-agent coordination.
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How it works end to end

Task allocation problem.

Contract net.

Blackboard architecture.

Consensus protocols.