An Agent Oriented Programming Language Targeting the Microsoft Common Language Runtime

In the last decades, a significant growth of agent oriented systems has been observed, which has stimulated a more precise formalism for the definition of both agent and multi-agent systems, as well as the release of a huge number of agent development environment. In this work a new programming paradigm is proposed, that is agent oriented programming instead of object oriented programming. The guidelines for the realization of a suited agent programming language, that is an agent oriented language, can be derived according to the basic characteristics that software agents must have. As well as object oriented programming fully exploits the structured programming basic concepts, agent oriented programming will strongly benefit of both the object oriented model and logic programming theoretical basis. A project for the development of a novel architecture has been presented for software agents’ development in an agent based system that is an Agent Programming Framework based on the Microsoft Common Language Runtime (CLR).