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This paper introduces an experimental framework for mobile agents. It utilizes expressiveness and formal foundation of concurrent constraint programming to solve the problem of system support for dynamic re-binding of not transferable resources and inter-agent collaboration based on logic variables. Proposed solutions make the agent-based programming easier and more straightforward and on the other hand offer a basis for a more sophisticated multi-agent system. The framework is implemented in the Distributed Oz programming language that appears to the programmer as concurrent, object-oriented language with data-flow synchronization. There are two implementations of the system – one is based on freely mobile objects and the other one is based on components (functors).
The work described in this paper was supported by the grants Nr. 1/5086/98 and 1/6278/99 of the Slovak Grant Agency.
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Paralič, M. (2000). Mobile Agents Based on Concurrent Constraint Programming. In: Weck, W., Gutknecht, J. (eds) Modular Programming Languages. JMLC 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1897. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722581_6
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