Programming Mirror Worlds: An Agent-Oriented Programming Perspective

  • Alessandro Ricci
  • Angelo Croatti
  • Pietro Brunetti
  • Mirko Viroli
Conference paper
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 9318)

Abstract

The impressive development of technologies is reducing the gulf between the physical and the digital matter, reality and virtuality. Mirror worlds (MW) are agent-based systems that live on this edge. They are meant to be a conceptual blueprint for designing future smart environment systems, providing an innovative conceptual framework for investigating inter-disciplinary aspects – from cognition to interaction, cooperation, governance – concerning human-agent mixed-reality and augmented systems. In this paper we focus on the problem of how to concretely design and program mirror worlds, in particular adopting high-level programming abstractions that are provided by state-of-the-art agent-oriented programming models and technologies.

Keywords

Augmented Reality Physical World Observable Property Mixed Reality Smart Environment 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Alessandro Ricci
    • 1
  • Angelo Croatti
    • 1
  • Pietro Brunetti
    • 1
  • Mirko Viroli
    • 1
  1. 1.DISIUniversity of BolognaCesenaItaly

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