About declarative semantics of logic-based agent languages

  • Authors:
  • Stefania Costantini;Arianna Tocchio

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

  • Venue:
  • DALT'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we cope with providing an approach to declarative semantics of logic-based agent-oriented languages, taking then as a case-study the language DALI which has been previously defined by the authors. This “evolutionary semantics” does not resort to a concept of state: rather, it models reception of events as program transformation steps, that produce a “program evolution” and a corresponding “semantic evolution”. Communication among agents and multi-agent systems is also taken into account. The aim is that of modeling agent's evolution according to either external (environmental) or internal changes in a logical way, thus allowing in principle the adoption of formal verification methods. We also intend to create a common ground for relating and comparing different approaches/languages.