Software agents: Languages, tools, platforms

Software agents: Languages, tools, platforms

The main goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the rapidly developing area of software agents serving as a reference point to a large body of literature and to present the key concepts of software agent technology, especially agent languages, tools and platforms. Special attention is paid to significant languages designed and developed in order to support implementation of agent-based...

Lightweight Languages as Software Engineering Tools

Software subsystems can often be designed and implemented in a clear, succinct, and aesthetically pleasing way using specialized linguistic formalisms. In cases where such a formalism is incompatible with the principal language of implementation, we have devised specialized lightweight languages. Such cases include the use of repeated program code or data, the specification of complex constants...

Advanced Software Framework, Tools, and Languages for the IXP Family

The IXP network processor [1] architecture is designed to process packets at high rates where inter-arrival times between packets are sometimes less than the individual memory access latencies. To keep up with such high arrival rates, IXP presents a novel architecture consisting of a collection of multithreaded, multiprocessors with an explicit memory hierarchy. Such an architecture poses inter...

Logic-Based Specification Languages for Intelligent Software Agents

The research field of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) aims to find abstractions, languages, methodologies and toolkits for modeling, verifying, validating and prototyping complex applications conceptualized as Multiagent Systems (MASs). A very lively research sub-field studies how formal methods can be used for AOSE. This paper presents a detailed survey of six logic-based executable...

Eiffel Workshop: Tools and Platforms