Programming mobile intelligent agents: An operational semantics

  • Authors:
  • A. Suna;A. El Fallah Seghrouchni

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd. E-mail: Alexandru.Suna@lip6.fr) University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, LIP6 - CNRS UMR 7606, 8 Rue du Capitaine Scott 75015 Paris, France;University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, LIP6 - CNRS UMR 7606, 8 Rue du Capitaine Scott 75015 Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents the operational semantics of an agent-oriented programming language called CLAIM. CLAIM allows to design multi-agent systems that support both stationary and mobile agents, endowed with cognitive capabilities and able to communicate. The semantics takes into account agents' reasoning, mobility, communication and concurrence, and contains a set of reduction rules between coherent states of a program. The operational semantics is a first step towards the formal verification of agent-based programs written in CLAIM. The reduction rules are illustrated on a case study.