Alessandro Ricci
ABSTRACT
Event-loops and control-loops are the main control architectures adopted in actors and in agents, respectively. These architectures have a strong impact on the principles and discipline that can be adopted to design and program actors and agents. In this paper we develop this point, considering some main models/languages/technologies - ActorFoundry, Akka Actors, SALSA, AmbientTalk on the actor side and Jason and ALOO on the agent side - discussing and comparing them.
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- From Actor Event-Loop to Agent Control-Loop: Impact on Programming
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