Paper Info
Title
Featherweight Agent Language A Core Calculus For Agents And Artifacts
Abstract
The widespread diffusion and availability of multicore architectures is going to make more and more aspects of concurrency and distribution to be part of mainstream programming and software engineering. The SIMPA framework is a recently proposed library-based extension of JAVA that introduces on top of the OO layer a new abstraction layer based on agent-oriented concepts. A SIMPA program is organized in terms of dynamic set of autonomous pro-active task-oriented entities - the agents - that cooperate by exploiting some artifacts, that represents resources and tools that are dynamically constructed, shared and co-used by agents. In this paper we promote the applicability of the agent and artifact metamodel in OO programming a step further. Namely, we propose a core calculus that integrates techniques coming from concurrency theory and from OO programming languages to provide a first basic formal framework for designing agent-oriented languages and studying properties of agent-oriented programs.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
ICSOFT 2009: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE AND DATA TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 1
Multi-agent systems, Concurrency, Core calculi, Type systems
Field
DocType
Citations 
Programming language,Concurrency,Computer science,Multi-agent system,Abstraction layer,Multi-core processor,Java,Metamodeling,Calculus
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ferruccio Damiani198971.30
Paola Giannini244950.00
Alessandro Ricci31853131.18
Mirko Viroli42278156.77