Organization-Based Agent-Oriented Programming and Language Oragent
Hu Cui · 2012
In the construction of dynamic and open multi-agent systems,several issues in existing agent-oriented programming should be solved including a lack of high-level abstraction,a great gap between the implementation and design models,insufficient execution mechanism and programming constructs to support dynamics.To deal with these issues,this paper proposes an organization-based agent-oriented programming approach,which takes organizations,groups,roles,and agents as first-class entities to narrow the gap between implementation and design models.Moreover,this approach introduces serveral organization mechanisms,i.e.role enactment mechanism and role-based interactions,to support the dynamics such as the dynamic composition of the agents' behaviors and dynamic interactions among agents.Based on the above ideas,an organization-based agent-oriented programming language,Oragent,is designed by defining its abstract syntax and formal operational semantics.Finally,a case is studied to show how to construct dynamic and flexible multi-agent systems with the programming approach and Oragent language.