Paper Info
Title
ViP: a visual programming language for plan execution systems
Abstract
A strength of agent architectures such as PRS and dMARS, which are based on stored plan execution, is that their plan languages offer an easily understood, visual representation of behaviour that permits their underlying architectural complexity to be partially abstracted and effectively exploited. Unlike visual representations of behaviour used in methodologies such as UML for programming in Object Oriented languages such as \textsfJava, plan graphs constitute a direct, executable specification of agent behaviour rather than a model which guides implementation refinement. Previously, such languages have lacked a formal semantic basis. This paper presents key elements of a new visual programming language ViP which has a complete and exact semantics based upon a recently described agent process algebra -- the &PSgr; calculus.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1145/544862.544914
AAMAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
new visual programming language,exact semantics,object oriented language,agent behaviour,plan graph,visual representation,plan execution,plan language,agent process algebra,plan execution system,executable specification,formal semantics,agent architecture,visual programming language,process algebra
Fifth-generation programming language,Graph,Programming language,Unified Modeling Language,Object-oriented programming,Computer science,Visual programming language,Process calculus,Semantics,Executable
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-480-0
9
0.57
References 
Authors
8
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Kinny11940210.96