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We demonstrate how exception handling can be realized in the SARL agent platform. We see exception handling as a mechanism binding some agents, entitled to raise given exceptions, to the ones entitled to handle them. To this end, we define dedicated exception spaces through which defining the agents’ behavior in presence of exceptions.
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The proposed implementation is available at http://di.unito.it/sarlexceptions.
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Baldoni, M., Baroglio, C., Micalizio, R., Tedeschi, S. (2023). Towards Exception Handling in the SARL Agent Platform. In: Mathieu, P., Dignum, F., Novais, P., De la Prieta, F. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cognitive Mimetics. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13955. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37616-0_33
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