Multi-Agents Systems as Concurrent Constraint Processes

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Authors	BRIM Luboš JACQUET Jean-Marie GILBERT David KŘETÍNSKÝ Mojmír
Year of publication	2001
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	SOFSEM 2001 28th Conf.on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
Citation
Field	Computer hardware and software
Keywords	agents; concurrent constraint programming; semantics; synchronny; concurrency
Description	We present a language Scc for a specification of the direct exchange and/or the global sharing of information in multi-agent systems. Scc is based on concurrent constraint programming paradigm which we modify in such a way that agents can (i) maintain its local private store, (ii) share (read/write) the information in the global store and (iii) communicate with other agents (via multi-party or hand-shake). To justify our proposal we compare Scc to a recently proposed language for the exchange of information in multi-agent systems. Also we provide an operational semantics of Scc. The full semantic treatment is sketched only and done elsewhere.
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