A Cooperation Language

First International Conference on Multiagent Systems

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First International Conference on Multiagent Systems

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This paper introduces CooL, a programming language for building cooperative applications. It combines the expressiveness of a h~gh-level AOP-language with the efficiency required by industrial applications. It integrates the support for planning and scheduling with efficient execution on the single agent as well as multi-agent levels (cooperation). CooL’s knowledge representation and execution facilities are inlroduced, yielding the mezhanisms that allow for easy programming of cooperations on the basis of cooperation primitives with a formal semantics.