Towards an Agent Programming Language
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This paper is an analysis of the characteristics of software agents and multi-agent systems aiming at deriving the basic concepts and capabilities that a “good” agent programming language should have. The paper deals with this topic from two different point of views: it analyzes agent’s properties in order to understand which language constructs and abstractions could be worth, and then refines this analysis by exploiting agent meta-models provided by agent-oriented software engineering methodologies. Even if the objective is quite ambitious, the concepts derived can be considered a starting point for a work leading to the specification and implementation of a mainstream agent programming language.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009