Abstract
The impressive development of technologies is reducing the gulf between the physical and the digital matter, reality and virtuality. Mirror worlds (MW) are agent-based systems that live on this edge. They are meant to be a conceptual blueprint for designing future smart environment systems, providing an innovative conceptual framework for investigating inter-disciplinary aspects – from cognition to interaction, cooperation, governance – concerning human-agent mixed-reality and augmented systems. In this paper we focus on the problem of how to concretely design and program mirror worlds, in particular adopting high-level programming abstractions that are provided by state-of-the-art agent-oriented programming models and technologies.
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The name mirror world has been used in honour of Gelernter’s book [10] that originally inspired the first glimpses of this idea.
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The altitude is not considered in the examples.
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Ricci, A., Croatti, A., Brunetti, P., Viroli, M. (2015). Programming Mirror Worlds: An Agent-Oriented Programming Perspective. In: Baldoni, M., Baresi, L., Dastani, M. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26184-3_11
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