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Programming the Mobility Behaviour of Agents by Composing Itineraries

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Advances in Computing Science — ASIAN’99 (ASIAN 1999)

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We present an algebra for programming the itineraries of mobile agents. The algebra contains operators for modelling sequential, parallel, nondeterministic, and conditional mobility behaviour. Iterative behaviour is also modelled by a language of regular itineraries borrowing ideas from regular expressions.We give an operational semantics for the operators using Plotkin-style transition rules and provide examples of itineraries for meeting scheduling, sales order processing, and network modelling.

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  1. CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology, Australia

    Seng Wai Loke

  2. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Monash University, Caulfield, VIC 3145, Australia

    Heinz Schmidt & Arkady Zaslavsky

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  1. Chennai Mathematical Institute, 92 G.N. Chetty Road, T. Nagar, Chennai, 600 017, India

    P. S. Thiagarajan

  2. School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119260

    Roland Yap

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Loke, S.W., Schmidt, H., Zaslavsky, A. (1999). Programming the Mobility Behaviour of Agents by Composing Itineraries. In: Thiagarajan, P.S., Yap, R. (eds) Advances in Computing Science — ASIAN’99. ASIAN 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1742. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46674-6_19

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