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Integrating Agents and Objects to Develop Distributed AI Systems

This paper presents a language for the development of multi-agent systems that allows a user to write programs with a small effort thanks to a predejined agent model and a set of specialized primitives for agent management. Moreovel; the user can develop agent parts at a low level taking advantage of all the potentialities of C++, Common Lisp and Java object-oriented languages, and reusing a la...

Distributed Objects for Concurrent Engineering

The growing size of Software Engineering teams (up to a thousand people), combined with shrinking software life cycle duration (a few months) have created considerable pressure to increase concurrency. Concurrent work in Software Engineering. leads to find the same “object” simultaneously in multiple copies, locations and formats. Concurrent engineering support means the definition, control and...

Design Patterns for Concurrent and Distributed Objects

Due to the importance of distribution, object technologies, and the Web, infrastructures for Distributed Object Computing and Component-based middleware have become common place. However, it is not sufficient to just read the specification of standards such as Java RMI, EJB, or CORBA, and then to build applications using these standards. On one hand the transparency provided by these platforms ...

Issues in Concurrent and Distributed Objects

Observable behavior of distributed systems: Component reasoning for concurrent objects

Distributed systems play an essential role in the modern world, and the quality of such systems is crucial. Quality assurance is however non-trivial since distributed systems depend on unpredictable factors such as different processing speeds of independent components and network transmission speeds. Such systems are therefore hard to test under the different conditions, which calls for the nee...