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<p><b>Agent-oriented programming</b> (<b>AOP</b>) is a <a href="Programming_paradigm" title="Programming paradigm">programming paradigm</a> where the construction of the software is centered on the concept of <a href="Software_agent" title="Software agent">software agents</a>. In contrast to <a href="Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">object-oriented programming</a> which has objects (providing methods with variable parameters) at its core, AOP has externally specified agents (with interfaces and messaging capabilities) at its core. They can be thought of as abstractions of objects. Exchanged messages are interpreted by receiving "agents", in a way specific to its class of agents.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>Historically, the concept of agent-oriented programming and the idea of centering software around the concept of an Agent was introduced by <a href="Yoav_Shoham" title="Yoav Shoham">Yoav Shoham</a> within his <a href="Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> studies in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His agents are specific to his own paradigm as they have only one method, with one parameter. To quote Yoav Shoham from his paper in 1990 for a basic difference between AOP and OOP:
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</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>... agent-oriented programming (AOP), which can be viewed as a specialization of object-oriented programming.</p></blockquote>
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<th>OOP</th>
<th>AOP
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<th scope="row">Basic unit
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<td>object</td>
<td>agent
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<th scope="row">Parameters defining state of basic unit
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<td>unconstrained</td>
<td>beliefs, commitments, capabilities, choices, ...
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<th scope="row">Process of computation
</th>
<td><a href="Message_passing" title="Message passing">message passing</a> and response methods</td>
<td>message passing and response methods
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<th scope="row">Types of message
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<td>unconstrained</td>
<td>inform, request, offer, promise, decline, ...
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<th scope="row">Constraints on methods
</th>
<td>none</td>
<td>honesty, consistency, ...
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Frameworks">Frameworks</h2></div>
<p>There are multiple AOP 'frameworks', also called agent platforms, that implement Shoham's programming paradigm. The following examples illustrate how a basic agent is programmed as a hello-world program.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="JADE">JADE</h3></div>
<p>For the Java-platform one of the frameworks is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100621141053/http://jade.tilab.com/">JADE</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
Here is a very basic example<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of an agent that runs code.
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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-java mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="kn">package</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">helloworld</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="kn">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">jade.core.Agent</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="kd">public</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">class</span> <span class="nc">Hello</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">extends</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Agent</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">protected</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">void</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">setup</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"> </span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">System</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="na">out</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="na">println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"Hello World. "</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">System</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="na">out</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="na">println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"My name is "</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">getLocalName</span><span class="p">());</span><span class="w"> </span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="w"> </span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">public</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">Hello</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">System</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="na">out</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="na">println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"Constructor called"</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<p>At the core of JADE's AOP model is that its <a href="API" title="API">API</a> supports the standard <a href="Foundation_for_Intelligent_Physical_Agents" title="Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents">FIPA</a> <a href="Agent_Communication_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Agent Communication Language">Agent Communication Language</a>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agent_Speak_(Jason)">Agent Speak (Jason)</h3></div>
<p><a href="AgentSpeak" title="AgentSpeak">AgentSpeak</a> is an agent-oriented programming language based on logic programming and the <a href="Belief%E2%80%93desire%E2%80%93intention_software_model" title="Belief–desire–intention software model">belief–desire–intention</a> (BDI) architecture.
</p><p>For a literal translation of agent-oriented concepts into a scheme unobfuscated as is JADE, behind Java and Object Orientedness, Agent Speak<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Jason) provides a "natural" language for agents.
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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-jade mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">started</span>.
<span class="w"> </span><span class="err">+</span><span class="nt">started</span> <- .print("Hello World. ").
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="GOAL">GOAL</h3></div>
<p><a href="GOAL_agent_programming_language" title="GOAL agent programming language">GOAL</a> is an agent <a href="Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming language</a> for programming <a href="Cognitive_agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Cognitive agent">cognitive agents</a>. GOAL agents derive their choice of action from their beliefs and goals. The language provides the basic building blocks to design and implement cognitive agents by programming constructs that allow and facilitate the manipulation of an agent's beliefs and goals and to structure its <a href="Decision-making" title="Decision-making">decision-making</a>. The language provides an intuitive programming framework based on <a href="Common_sense" title="Common sense">common sense</a> or <a href="Practical_reasoning" class="mw-redirect" title="Practical reasoning">practical reasoning</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SARL_Language">SARL Language</h3></div>
<p><a href="SARL_(programming_language)" title="SARL (programming language)">SARL</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> provides the fundamental abstractions for coding multiagent systems.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It uses a script-like syntax (inspired by Scala and Ruby).
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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-sarl mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="kn">package</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">helloworld</span>
<span class="kn">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">io.sarl.core.Initialize</span>
<span class="kd">agent</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nc">HelloWorldAgent</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">on</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Initialize</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">{</span><span class="w"> </span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">println</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s2">"Hello World."</span><span class="o">)</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">}</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="PADE_(Python_Agent_DEvelopment_framework)">PADE (Python Agent DEvelopment framework)</h3></div>
<p>PADE<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a python package to develop intelligent agents in python language. This framework complies to FIPA and ACL standards.
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<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-python mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="k">class</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nc">AgenteHelloWorld</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Agent</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">def</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">aid</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="nb">super</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">AgenteHelloWorld</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">aid</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">aid</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">display_message</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">aid</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">localname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"Hello World!"</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middleware">Middleware</h2></div>
<p>One way to implement modular or extensible AOP support is to define standard AOP <a href="API" title="API">APIs</a> to <a href="Middleware" title="Middleware">middleware</a> functions that are themselves implemented as <a href="Software_agent" title="Software agent">software agents</a>. For example, a directory service can be implemented as a <a href="Foundation_for_Intelligent_Physical_Agents" title="Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents">FIPA</a> directory facilitator or DF software agent; life-cycle management to start, stop, suspend and resume agents can be implemented as a FIPA Agent Management Service or AMS agent.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A benefit of the AOP approach is that it supports more dynamic roles between different users and providers of applications, services and networks. For example, traditionally, networks and services were usually managed by the network and service provider on behalf of the customer and offered as a single virtual network service but customers themselves are becoming more empowered to integrate and manage their own services. This can be achieved via AOP and APIs to middleware agents that can flexibly and dynamically manage communication.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Software_agent" title="Software agent">Software agent</a> – Computer program acting for a user</li>
<li><a href="NetLogo" title="NetLogo">NetLogo</a> – Programming language</li>
<li><a href="Actor_model" title="Actor model">Actor model</a> – Model of concurrent computation</li>
<li><a href="GOAL_agent_programming_language" title="GOAL agent programming language">GOAL</a> – Language for cognitive agents</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Actor_model" title="Actor model">Actor-based</a></li>
<li><a href="Automatic_mutual_exclusion" title="Automatic mutual exclusion">Automatic mutual exclusion</a></li>
<li><a href="Choreographic_programming" title="Choreographic programming">Choreographic programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Concurrent_logic_programming" title="Concurrent logic programming">Concurrent logic</a> (<a href="Concurrent_constraint_logic_programming" title="Concurrent constraint logic programming">Concurrent constraint logic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Concurrent_object-oriented_programming" title="Concurrent object-oriented programming">Concurrent OO</a></li>
<li><a href="Macroprogramming" title="Macroprogramming">Macroprogramming</a></li>
<li><a href="Multitier_programming" title="Multitier programming">Multitier programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Organic_computing" title="Organic computing">Organic computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallel_programming_model" title="Parallel programming model">Parallel programming models</a></li>
<li><a href="Partitioned_global_address_space" title="Partitioned global address space">Partitioned global address space</a></li>
<li><a href="Process-oriented_programming" title="Process-oriented programming">Process-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Relativistic_programming" title="Relativistic programming">Relativistic programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Service-oriented_programming" title="Service-oriented programming">Service-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Structured_concurrency" title="Structured concurrency">Structured concurrency</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Attribute-oriented_programming" title="Attribute-oriented programming">Attribute-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Automatic_programming" title="Automatic programming">Automatic</a> (<a href="Inductive_programming" title="Inductive programming">Inductive</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_programming_language" title="Dynamic programming language">Dynamic</a></li>
<li><a href="Extensible_programming" title="Extensible programming">Extensible</a></li>
<li><a href="Generic_programming" title="Generic programming">Generic</a></li>
<li><a href="Homoiconicity" title="Homoiconicity">Homoiconicity</a></li>
<li><a href="Interactive_programming" title="Interactive programming">Interactive</a></li>
<li><a href="Macro_(computer_science)" title="Macro (computer science)">Macro</a> (<a href="Hygienic_macro" title="Hygienic macro">Hygienic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Metalinguistic_abstraction" title="Metalinguistic abstraction">Metalinguistic abstraction</a></li>
<li><a href="Multi-stage_programming" title="Multi-stage programming">Multi-stage</a></li>
<li><a href="Program_synthesis" title="Program synthesis">Program synthesis</a> (<a href="Bayesian_program_synthesis" title="Bayesian program synthesis">Bayesian</a>, <a href="Inferential_programming" title="Inferential programming">Inferential</a>, <a href="Programming_by_demonstration" title="Programming by demonstration">by demonstration</a>, <a href="Programming_by_example" title="Programming by example">by example</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Reflective_programming" title="Reflective programming">Reflective</a></li>
<li><a href="Self-modifying_code" title="Self-modifying code">Self-modifying code</a></li>
<li><a href="Symbolic_programming" title="Symbolic programming">Symbolic</a></li>
<li><a href="Template_metaprogramming" title="Template metaprogramming">Template</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Aspect-oriented_programming" title="Aspect-oriented programming">Aspects</a></li>
<li><a href="Component-based_software_engineering" title="Component-based software engineering">Components</a></li>
<li><a href="Data-driven_programming" title="Data-driven programming">Data-driven</a></li>
<li><a href="Data-oriented_design" title="Data-oriented design">Data-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Event-driven_programming" title="Event-driven programming">Event-driven</a></li>
<li><a href="Feature-oriented_programming" title="Feature-oriented programming">Features</a></li>
<li><a href="Literate_programming" title="Literate programming">Literate</a></li>
<li><a href="Role-oriented_programming" title="Role-oriented programming">Roles</a></li>
<li><a href="Subject-oriented_programming" title="Subject-oriented programming">Subjects</a></li></ul>
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