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Coordination for Internet Application Development

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Andrea Omicini,

Franco ZambonelliAuthors Info & Claims

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Volume 2, Issue 3

Pages 251 - 269

https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010060322135

Published: 01 September 1999 Publication History

Abstract

The adoption of a powerful and expressive coordination model represents a key-point for the effective design and development of Internet applications. In this paper, we present the TuCSoN coordination model for Internet applications based on network-aware and mobile agents, and show how the adoption of TuCSoN can positively benefit the design and development of such applications, firstly in general terms, then via a TuCSoN-coordinated sample application. This is achieved by providing for an Internet interaction space made up of a multiplicity of independently programmable communication abstractions, called tuple centres, whose behaviour can be defined so as to embody the laws of coordination.

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Coordination for Internet Application Development
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Volume 2, Issue 3

September 1999

85 pages

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