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Different theoretical and practical insights into the field of computational organisations and electronic institutions has led to a clear separation of concerns between societal and agent-based features in the implementation of multiagent systems. From a theoretical perspective, this separation of concerns is also at the core of recent proposals towards a societal programming language. Building on the operational model of one of these proposals, this paper addresses the practical issue of implementing a web-based virtual machine for that language. The resulting framework is intended to be used in a wide range of applications, all of them related to the implementation of social processes (business processes, social networks, etc.).
Research sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (MEC), project TIN2006-15455-C03-03, and the Regional Government of Madrid and University Rey Juan Carlos, project URJC-CM-2006-CET-0300.
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Saugar, S., Serrano, J.M. (2008). A Web-Based Virtual Machine for Developing Computational Societies. In: Klusch, M., Pěchouček, M., Polleres, A. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents XII. CIA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5180. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85834-8_14
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