Conversation Oriented Programming in COOL: Current State and Future Directions
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Conversations are a new programming abstraction created for capturing knowledge about the interactions among agents. In this paper we review a conversational coordination language we have designed and used in the past few years, to characterize its main assumptions, strengths and limitations. Based on this analysis we discuss a number of major new features and extensions for our next generation conversational coor-
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