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Message-brokers and communicating prolog processes

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PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe (PARLE 1992)

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A novel interprocess communication paradigm based on message-passing, message-brokers, is described, together with the small number of primitives that support message-brokered communication between formally defined Prolog processes. Message-brokers combine the addressing flexibility (mobility) of mailboxes with the synchronization facilities of synchronous communication models, such as CSP. Message-brokers are first class Prolog objects. In particular, transmission of message-brokers and their subsequent use in processes where they were not previous found has the effect of dynamically altering the pattern of interconnections between communicating processes. The model directly supports non-deterministic interactions between multiple client and server processes, e.g. as may occur in multi-agent planning. This new form of parallel Prolog is principally intended for closely-coupled distributed architectures.

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Wise, M.J. (1992). Message-brokers and communicating prolog processes. In: Etiemble, D., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55599-4_109

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