Object composition is often advocated as a more flexible alternative to standard class inheritance since it takes place at run-time, thus permitting the behavior of objects to be ...
This paper presents an imperative object calculus designed to support class-based programming via a combination of extensible objects and encapsulation. This calculus simplifies th...
In recent years, agent-based systems have received considerable attention in both academics and industry. The agent-oriented paradigm can be considered a natural extension to the ...