Andrea Santi
ABSTRACT
This paper describes a framework devised to ease the definition and management of complex tasks on top of ALOO, a novel Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming (COOP) language rooted on agent-oriented abstractions.
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- A task framework on top of a concurrent OOP language rooted on agent-oriented abstractions
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