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This paper describes how roles have been used to engender reuse within the ALPHA agent programming language.
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Collier, R., Ross, R., O’Hare, G.M.P. (2005). Realising Reusable Agent Behaviours with ALPHA. In: Eymann, T., Klügl, F., Lamersdorf, W., Klusch, M., Huhns, M.N. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550648_19
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