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Interaction protocols in the JADEL programming language

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Federico Bergenti,

Eleonora Iotti,

Stefania Monica,

Agostino PoggiAuthors Info & Claims

AGERE 2016: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Programming Based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control

Pages 11 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/3001886.3001888

Published: 30 October 2016 Publication History

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This paper presents the support for interaction protocols that has been recently added to the JADEL programming language. JADEL is an agent-oriented programming language designed to ease the development of JADE agents and multi-agent systems by offering general-purpose agent-oriented abstractions to the programmer. The first part of the paper presents JADEL and motivates the need for a new agent-oriented programming language. Then, the agent-oriented abstractions that JADEL has been providing since its first version-namely agents, behaviours and communication ontologies-are described. The new support for interaction protocols is finally presented, and a simple example of a JADEL multi-agent system that uses interaction protocols is reported. The paper is concluded with an overview of the current state of JADEL and related tools.

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Bergenti FCaire GMonica SPoggi A(2020)The first twenty years of agent-based software development with JADEAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems10.1007/s10458-020-09460-z34:2Online publication date: 11-May-2020
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