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A behavioral notion of subtyping
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Modular Construction and Partial Order Semantics of Petri Nets
Modular Construction and Partial Order Semantics of Petri Nets
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ECOOP '88 Proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Behavioural Types in CoOperative Objects
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Behavioural subtyping and property preservation for active objects
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The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III
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This paper presents formal semantics for behavioural substitutability of agent components, and argues that the traditional approaches used in software multi-agent systems are not rigorous and have some limitations. We propose various substitutability relations based upon the preorder relations which are considered in the study of concurrent systems. Examples of interaction protocols such as the Contract-Net-Protocol are given to illustrate our approach.