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Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to Implementation

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Cooperative Information Agents III (CIA 1999)

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We propose a method to derive Mobile Agents Behaviours from simple and easy to use declarative specifications. We use for that a manufacturing system route metaphor as a mean to express the mission of a mobile agent. The specification is expressed with a datamodel and is automatically transformed into a two-component behaviour: a Task Net expressed with Petri Nets(PN) and an Intelligent PN Interpreter guaranteeing agent autonomy and flexibility.

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  1. University of Toulouse I, Place Anatole France, 31042, Toulouse, France

    C. Hanachi, N. Hameurlain & C. Sibertin-Blanc

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  1. DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA

    Onn M. Shehory

  3. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universitä München, D-80290, München, Germany

    Gerhard Weiss

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Hanachi, C., Hameurlain, N., Sibertin-Blanc, C. (1999). Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to Implementation. In: Klusch, M., Shehory, O.M., Weiss, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents III. CIA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48414-0_13

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