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Bridging Agent Theory and Object Orientation: Agent-Like Communication Among Objects

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This paper begins with the comparison of the message- sending mechanism, for communication among agents, and the method-invocation mechanism, for communication among objects. Then, we describe an extension of the method-invocation mechanism by introducing the notion of “sender” of a message, “state” of the interaction and “protocol” using the notion of “role”, as it has been introduced in the powerJava extension of Java. The use of roles in communication is shown by means of an example of protocol.

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  • Multiagent System
  • Object Orientation
  • Method Invocation
  • Java Language
  • Role Instance

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica. Università di Torino, Italy

    Matteo Baldoni & Guido Boella

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Baldoni, M., Boella, G., van der Torre, L. (2007). Bridging Agent Theory and Object Orientation: Agent-Like Communication Among Objects. In: Bordini, R.H., Dastani, M., Dix, J., Seghrouchni, A.E.F. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4411. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71956-4_9

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