Agent

continuously playing the active function in the distributed artificial intelligence and coordinative system

is featured with autonomy

activity

reactivity and intelligence.With the Single-agent research developing into a higher level

multi-agent system arouses more and more attention

and MAS has become the current focus in the research field.The mutual coordination and mutual service significantly contribute to the forming of greatly functional multi-agent system.MAS could be made up of either several agents with relatively low and unitary intellectual ability or a couple of complex agents combining with some other simplistic agents.Beginning with the conception

attributes and structural model of agent

this paper systematically studies the coordinative strategies during the process of agents cooperating through analyzing the Shapley and Postman algorithm on their advantages and disadvantages respectively.