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Towards an agent oriented programming language with caste and scenario mechanisms

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Ji Wang,

Rui Shen,

Hong ZhuAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '05: Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Pages 1297 - 1298

https://doi.org/10.1145/1082473.1082741

Published: 25 July 2005 Publication History

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The paper presents an agent-oriented programming language SLABSp. It provides caste and scenario mechanisms in a coherent way to support the caste-centric methodology of agent-oriented software development. It uses caste as a modular facility to organize agents into castes and to represent their structure and behavior characteristics. SLABSp also uses scenarios to define agents' behaviors in the context of environment situations. In the paper, the implementation of the language is briefly described. An example of the program is given to illustrate its programming style.

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Towards an agent oriented programming language with caste and scenario mechanisms
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Concurrent programming languages
        Distributed programming languages
        Parallel programming languages

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DOI:10.1145/1082473

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Mao XDong MZhu H(2018)A Two-Layer Approach to Developing Self-Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems in Open EnvironmentComputer Systems and Software Engineering10.4018/978-1-5225-3923-0.ch024(585-606)Online publication date: 2018
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Dong MMao XYin JChang ZQi Z(2009)SADEProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems10.1007/978-3-642-11161-7_37(516-524)Online publication date: 15-Dec-2009
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Shan LShen RWang J(2007)Caste-Centric Development of Agent-Oriented Information SystemsHandbook of Research on Nature-Inspired Computing for Economics and Management10.4018/978-1-59140-984-7.ch045(692-707)Online publication date: 2007
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