Goal-oriented modularity in agent programming

Modularization is widely recognized as a central issue in software engineering. In this paper we address the issue of modularization in cognitive agent programming languages. We discuss existing approaches to modularity in cognitive agent programming. Then, we propose a new kind of modularity, i.e., goal-oriented modularity, which takes the goals of an agent as the basis for modularization. Further, we present a formal semantics of goal-oriented modularity in the context of the 3APL agent programming language.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Frank S. de Boer
• Keywords: Agent Programming, Agent Programming Language, ATAL 2006, Cognitive Agent Programming, Intelligent Agents