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An agent-oriented approach to the design, implementation and maintenance of reusable software components is discussed. Main features of the approach are: (1) the use of a formal description to enable meta-level reasoning and reflection, (2) the use of automated coding and instantiation of computational fragments, (3) the use of a distributed network and interfaces allowing the browsing, indexing and retrieval of fragments from remote sites.
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Steels, L. (1994). Beyond objects. In: Tokoro, M., Pareschi, R. (eds) Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0052173
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