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International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages

ATAL 1996: Intelligent Agents III Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages pp 325–339Cite as

A multi language environment to develop multi agent applications

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HOMAGE is an environment for the development of multi agent systems integrating agent and object-oriented programming paradigms and offering two different programming levels: object and agent. The object level allows the use of three object-oriented programming languages (C++, Common Lisp and Java) to develop new agent models as well as the components that will be used to build the body of agents. The agent level allows the development of new agents by defining their “brain” and by composing the components defined at the object level, and allows the development of multi agent systems by distributing and interconnecting agent instances. Moreover, these multi agent systems can be distributed on a net of heterogeneous machines connected through internet taking advantage of a set of communication and distribution libraries allowing the communication between agents through different protocols. The paper includes a brief description of a robotic application that we implemented during the experimentation of the environment.

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Poggi, A., Adorni, G. (1997). A multi language environment to develop multi agent applications. In: Müller, J.P., Wooldridge, M.J., Jennings, N.R. (eds) Intelligent Agents III Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. ATAL 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1193. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013595

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