STL A Coordination Language for Autonomy based Multi Agent Systems

This paper introduces ECM a new coordination model and one of his language binding STL STL is aimed at making par allel and distributed programs construction easier by providing a set of powerful tools that clearly describe the coordination part of an applica tion These tools embedded in an object oriented computation language enable distributed components to be dynamically recon gured STL acts also as a coordination language especially well suited for distributed implementations of multi agent systems It is aimed at giving basic con structs for the implementation of generic multi agent platforms The un derlying architecture on which STL develops is based on Pt pvm a software platform providing rich message passing facilities for light weight processes threads which is itself built on top of PVM