The Eel Programming Language and Internal Concurrency in Logic Agents
Torbjørn Dahl · 2007
This paper describes work done on creating the logic programming language Eel. The language is designed for implementing agents with a behaviour based, concurrent internal architecture. The paper also suggests a new such architecture which improves on the ones currently available. It gives examples of how parts of that architecture are implemented in Eel and comments that the Agent Oriented Programming paradigm currently contains two different metaphors for concurrency. Eel's event based approach to process communication and process initiation introduces an explicit representation of state to a logic program. A new declarative approach to object states is demonstrated as a part of the object oriented implementation of the suggested agent architecture. As well as being a programming language, Eel is a formalism which is well suited for logic based machine learning of behaviour and interaction. This paper briefly outlines the scope for using such learning to improve on exist...