Title :
From active objects to autonomous agents
Author :
Guessoum, Zahia ; Briot, Jean-Pierre
Author_Institution :
Objects & Agents for Simulation & Inf. Syst (OASIS), France
Abstract :
The authors describe how they extended a framework of active objects, named Actalk, into a generic multiagent platform, named DIMA. They discuss how they implemented this extension and report on one DIMA application that simulates economic models
Keywords :
economics; multi-agent systems; object-oriented programming; Actalk; DIMA; active objects; autonomous agents; economic models; multiagent system; object oriented programming; Appropriate technology; Autonomous agents; Computer languages; Design methodology; Information systems; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Production facilities; Programming environments; Protocols;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.788781
