Compiling GOAL agent programs into Jazzyk behavioural state machines

Koen Hindriks; Peter Novák

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_9

Compiling GOAL agent programs into Jazzyk behavioural state machines

Koen Hindriks^*
, Peter Novák

^*Corresponding author for this work

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A variety of agent-oriented programming languages based on concepts such as beliefs and goals has been proposed in the literature. Even though most of these languages now come with interpreters implemented in e.g. Java and can be used to write software agents, there is little work reporting how to implement such languages or to identify a core instruction set that would facilitate such implementation. In this paper we introduce a compiler for the language GOAL into the framework of Jazzyk Behavioural State Machines. The result is a translation of key agent concepts such as beliefs and goals into Jazzyk which lacks these notions, thus providing some evidence that it may provide a sufficient instruction set for implementing agent programs. Moreover, arguably, the implementation strategy used can be applied also to other agent programming languages.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Multiagent System Technologies - 6th German Conference, MATES 2008, Proceedings
Pages	86-98
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_9
Publication status	Published - 27 Nov 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	6th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2008 - Kaiserslautern, Germany Duration: 23 Sept 2008 → 26 Sept 2008

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	5244 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	6th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2008
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Kaiserslautern
Period	23/09/08 → 26/09/08

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Hindriks, K., & Novák, P. (2008). Compiling GOAL agent programs into Jazzyk behavioural state machines. In Multiagent System Technologies - 6th German Conference, MATES 2008, Proceedings (pp. 86-98). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5244 LNAI). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_9

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Hindriks, K & Novák, P 2008, Compiling GOAL agent programs into Jazzyk behavioural state machines. in Multiagent System Technologies - 6th German Conference, MATES 2008, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 5244 LNAI, pp. 86-98, 6th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, MATES 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 23/09/08. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_9

Compiling GOAL agent programs into Jazzyk behavioural state machines. / Hindriks, Koen; Novák, Peter.
Multiagent System Technologies - 6th German Conference, MATES 2008, Proceedings. 2008. p. 86-98 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5244 LNAI).

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