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Agent Oriented Programming is in need of an application domain that can give it exposure to a broader audience. Web technologies have matured over the past decade, having reached a point where it is feasible to develop complex, large client side applications, i.e. applications that run in the browser. Together with mobile applications, web applications is a field in which Agent Oriented Programming can shine.
In this paper we propose a dialect of Jason (a subset of Jason extended with promises for asynchronous computations) for client side development. We will give the design rationale of the language and some details on its implementation.
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Muscar, A. (2014). Agents in the Browser – Using Agent Oriented Programming for Client Side Development. In: Badica, A., Trawinski, B., Nguyen, N. (eds) Recent Developments in Computational Collective Intelligence. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 513. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01787-7_8
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