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Reuse by Inheritance in Agent Programming Languages

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Intelligent Distributed Computing V

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 382))

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The need to modularise and thereby reuse complex agent programs has long been recognised in agent programming language research. Current approaches to agent modularity fall into two main categories: compositional; and environment-based. Motivated by a problem which requires two variants of the same agent to be built, this paper proposes a set of language extensions which add a complementary modularity style - reuse by inheritance - to agent programming languages. The extensions are designed so that they can be implemented in a preprocessor and added easily to an existing language, without affecting its type system, and with little or no change to its underlying interpreter.

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    H. R. Jordan, S. E. Russell, G. M. P. O’Hare & R. W. Collier

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  1. Faculty of Technology,Policy andManagement, Intelligent Interactive Dynamic Systems, Section Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    F. M. T. Brazier

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    Kees Nieuwenhuis  & Gregor Pavlin  & 

  3. Faculty of Technology,Policy andManagement, Section Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    Martijn Warnier

  4. Faculty of Automatics, Computers and Electronics, Software Engineering Department, University of Craiova, Bvd. Decebal Nr. 107, 200440, Craiova, Romania

    Costin Badica

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Jordan, H.R., Russell, S.E., O’Hare, G.M.P., Collier, R.W. (2011). Reuse by Inheritance in Agent Programming Languages. In: Brazier, F.M.T., Nieuwenhuis, K., Pavlin, G., Warnier, M., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing V. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24013-3_30

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