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Developing behaviours for complex component based systems is a difficult task. This paper evaluates the use of agent-oriented programming languages as a high level abstraction for performing this task. Evaluation carried out objectively shows that participants completed more tasks and subjectively they perceived that it was easier to use when compared with the same tasks performed using Java.
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Russell, S., O’Hare, G.M.P., Collier, R.W. (2015). Agent-Oriented Programming Languages as a High-Level Abstraction Facilitating the Development of Intelligent Behaviours for Component-Based Applications. In: Chen, Q., Torroni, P., Villata, S., Hsu, J., Omicini, A. (eds) PRIMA 2015: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9387. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25524-8_32
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