DECENTRALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT FOR AGENT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

This paper presents some aspects of our ongoing studies of Decentralized Computing Environment for Agent-Oriented Programming (DzCE/AOP) that creates a bridge between the conventional distributed computing environment (DCE) and agent-oriented programming (AOP). To clarify the nature of this relationship, we describe a number of AOP concepts and architecture in which the underlying social theories used were derived for symbolic interactionism. Starting from AOP ideas, we continue on to discuss the relevance of conventional DCE as a basis to construct AOP system. We then discuss how to enhance conventional DCE to better provide multi-level DzCE/AOP.