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Mobile UNITY Schemas for Agent Coordination

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Mobile UNITY refers to a notation system and proof logic initially designed to accommodate the special needs of the emerging field of mobile computing. The model allows one to define units of computation and mobility and the formal rules for coordination among them in a highly decoupled manner. In this paper, we reexamine the expressive power of the Mobile UNITY coordination constructs from a new perspective rooted in the notion that disciplined usage of a powerful formal model must rely on formally defined schemas. Several coordination schemas are introduced and formalized. They examine the relationship between Mobile UNITY and other computing models and illustrate the mechanics of employing Mobile UNITY as the basis for a formal semantic characterization of coordination models.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St., Campus Box 1045, 63130-4899, Louis, MO, USA

    Gruia-Catalin Roman & Jamie Payton

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Via Buonarotti 2, 56127, Pisa, Italy

    Egon Börger

  2. CEA, Università di Catania, Piazza Università 2, 95124, Catania, Italy

    Angelo Gargantini

  3. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Città Universitaria, viale A. Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy

    Elvinia Riccobene

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Roman, GC., Payton, J. (2003). Mobile UNITY Schemas for Agent Coordination. In: Börger, E., Gargantini, A., Riccobene, E. (eds) Abstract State Machines 2003. ASM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2589. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36498-6_7

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