Modelling Agents as Observable Sources
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Observation is a fundamental interaction pattern in today’s computerbased systems. Adopting observation as the main modelling criterion, computer-based systems can be represented as composed by three class of entities: observers, observables (or sources), and coordinators, that is, the entities managing the observer/source
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عنوان ژورنال:
- J. UCS
دوره 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002