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By Raymond M. Smullyan
80 paradoxes, logical labyrinths, and interesting enigmas development from gentle fables and fancies to not easy Zen routines and a novella and probe the undying questions of philosophy and existence.
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Although termination of constraint checking is left in the programmer's hand, only one thread is affected by a loop 42 Paul Tarau in the code, the server's integrity as such not being compromised. We think that improvement of implementation technology for server side constraint solving in a blackboard based framework rises some challenging open problems. Moreover, incorporating server-side symbolic constraint reducers (CLP, FD or interval based) can dramatically improve performance for large scale problems.
Note that answers are produced in standard Prolog (LD-resolution) order. This design choice is needed for improved predictability, keeping in mind that Jinni, as a multi-threaded environment, is already subject to more complex operational semantics. 38 Paul Tarau It is quite surprising how simply all essential control constructs of Prolog can be built on top of this one_solution/3 primitive3 . if(Cond,Then,Else):one_solution(successful(Cond,Then),Cond,R), select_then_else(R,Cond,Then,Else). select_then_else(the(successful(Cond,Then»,Cond,Then,_):-Then .
EVENTS OF THE AGENT EVENTS OF THE AGENT a request b st . 2 from ag('nt l'Jp HI II EVENTS OF THE AGENT 4 6 ReceIve a request marlc / 2 from agenl clp 4 7 Send a reply marks / 3 to agent CIP STATE OF THE AGENT lIT. - - . "; I • - r Fig. 6. CaseLP Visualizer: on-line visualization of execution j( • I J Fig. 7. CaseLP Visualizer: off-line tracing of execution 6 Conclusions and Future Work In the paper Agent Based Software Engineering [Woo97), M. Wooldridge considers "the problem of building a Multi-Agent System as a software engineering enterprise [involving three main issues): how agents might be specified; how these specifications might be refined or otherwise trans- 28 Marco Bozzano et al.