STL++: A Coordination Language for Autonomy-based Multi-Agent Systems

. This paper introduces ECM, a new coordination model, and one of his language binding, STL++. STL++ is aimed at making parallel and distributed programs' construction easier by providing a set of powerful tools that clearly describe the coordination part of an application. These tools, embedded in an object-oriented computation language, enable distributed components to be dynamically reconfigured. STL++ acts also as a coordination language especially well suited for distributed implementations of multi-agent systems. It is aimed at giving basic constructs for the implementation of generic multi-agent platforms. The underlying architecture on which STL++ develops, is based on Pt-pvm, a software platform providing rich message passing facilities for lightweight processes (threads), which is itself built on top of PVM. Keywords: Coordination, Distributed Systems, Threads, Concurrency, Communication Models, Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, PVM, Pt-pvm. 1 Introduction Coordination constit..