NDLI: Scenario mechanism in agent-oriented programming

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rui Shen Ji Wang Zhu, H.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Nat. Lab. for Parallel & Distributed Process., Changsha, China (Rui Shen; Ji Wang)
Abstract	Scenario has been used to describe agent behaviors in the context of environment situations in the specification languages for agent-based systems, such as SLABS. It becomes an important language facility in the declaration of an agent for specifying its behaviors in its environment. Therefore, towards agent-oriented programming, it is necessary to introduce and implement scenario mechanism in programming languages. This paper reports our attempts to support the language facility from the view of programming languages, and presents an approach to facilitating the scenario mechanism in agent-oriented programming. The basic idea is to extend object-oriented programming language to support agent-oriented programming, where Java is chosen as the base language. Firstly, the language framework of agent-oriented programming, SLABSp is presented, mostly conforming to SLABS, whose syntax is extended based on Java. Scenario mechanism is introduced as the new feature in the programming language. Secondly, the underlying object models are defined to serve as the semantics of the language, where agents are modeled by a couple of objects. A compiler has been built to compile the agent-oriented programs into Java. A running platform has been constructed as the multiagent runtime environment of SLABSp.
Sponsorship	Korea Inf. Sci. Soc
Starting Page	464
Ending Page	471
File Size	270652
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769522459
ISSN	15301362
DOI	10.1109/APSEC.2004.90
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-11-30
Publisher Place	South Korea
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Slabs Computer languages Java Object oriented modeling Object oriented programming Multiagent systems Specification languages Program processors Runtime environment Formal specifications
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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