Investigating interactions between agent conversations and agent control components

Exploring agent conversation in the context of fine-grained agent coordinat ion research has raised several intellectual questions. The major issues pe rtain to interactions between different agent conversations, the representa tions chosen for different classes of conversations, the explicit modeling of interactions between the conversations, and how to address these interac tions. This paper is not so ambitious as to attempt to address these questi ons, only frame them in the context of quantified, scheduling-centric multi -agent coordination research.