@conference {4320, title = {Socially-aware lightweight coordination infrastructures}, booktitle = {AAMAS{\textquoteright}11 12th International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering}, year = {2011}, pages = {117-128}, abstract = {Coordination infrastructures have played a central role in the engineering of multi-agent systems (MAS). Although MAS research has produced a number of notable coordination infrastructures of varying features, these have been mainly conceived to host software agents and to facilitate multi-agent programming. Thus, human agents have been mostly kept out of the picture, hence hindering the use of agent-oriented infrastructures for the coordination of hybrid multi-agent systems. Moreover, current MAS tools supporting coordination heavily rely on a dedicated infrastructure. In this work we touch upon these two issues. On the one hand, we analyse the kind of coordination support required by humans in a hybrid multi-agent system. On the other hand, we propose how to achieve coordination with little, lightweight infrastructure.}, author = {Marc Esteva and Juan A. Rodr{\'\i}guez-Aguilar and Josep Lluis Arcos and Carles Sierra} }