2003•Unpublished venueRequires access

A formal specification language for agent-oriented software engineering

Hong Zhu

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One of the most appealing features of agent technology is its natural way to modularise complex systems in terms of multiple interacting autonomous components. This feature is supported by the language facility castes in the formal specification language SLABS, which is designed for modular and composable specification of multi-agent systems. The paper reports the syntax and semantics of the language, and illustrates its style of formal specification by a distributed synchronisation algorithm.

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Key concepts: Computer science, Programming language specification, Specification language, Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification, Programming language, Formal specification, Formal methods, Modular design