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International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

AOSE 2000: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering pp 29–44Cite as

Interaction-Oriented Programming

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This paper describes a new approach to the production of robust software. We first motivate the approach by explaining why the two major goals of software engineering-correct software and reusable software-are not being addressed well by the current state of software practice. We then describe a methodology based on active, cooperative, and persistent software components, i.e., agents, and show how the methodology produces robust and reusable software. We derive requirements for the structure and behavior of the agents, and report on preliminary experiments on applications based on the methodology. We conclude with a roadmap for development of the methodology and ruminations about uses for the new computational paradigm.

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    Paolo Ciancarini

  2. Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, Chadwick Building, Peach Street, L69 7ZF, Liverpool, UK

    Michael J. Wooldridge

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Huhns, M.N. (2001). Interaction-Oriented Programming. In: Ciancarini, P., Wooldridge, M.J. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. AOSE 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1957. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44564-1_2

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