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ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review archive
Volume 6 , Issue 2 (September 1998) table of contents
Special issue on coodination languages and models

Pages: 18 - 32

Year of Publication: 1998

ISSN:1559-6915

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Oliver Krone	Computer Science Department, PAI group, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Fabrice Chantemargue	Computer Science Department, PAI group, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Thierry Dagaeff	Computer Science Department, PAI group, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Michael Schumacher	Computer Science Department, PAI group, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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This paper describes ECM, a new coordination model and STL its corresponding language. STL's power and expressiveness are shown through a distributed implementation of a generic autonomy-based multi-agent system, which is applied to a collective robotics simulation, thus demonstrating the appropriateness of STL for developing a generic coordination platform for autonomous agents.

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