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Subject: Re: Two Questions
From: Christophe Le Page (lepage@cirad.fr)
Date: mar mar 26 2002 - 14:02:58 CET
Hi Maria,
----- Original Message -----
From: Maria das Gracas Bruno Marietto <marietto@ec.ucdb.br>
To: <cormas@cines.fr>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 11:07 PM
Subject: Two Questions
> Hi
>
> I have two questions about CORMAS:
>
> 1) Is it possible to personalize the language used by the agents? For
> instance, working with KQML.
>
As Cormas is not constraining the user to choose among some predefined
agent models or communication protocols, everything is possible... but if
it does not exist somewhere in Cormas (and that's the case for KQML),
you have to write it in Smalltalk by yourself ! The idea being to share with
everybody such generic features when you design it for your own model !
> 2) Like Swarm, is it possible to access agent's methods in the running time?
>
For this particular point, it should be noted that Cormas is more powerfull
than Swarm: due to the fact that SmallTalk is interpreted, unlike Objective-C,
you can not only access but even modify run-time agent's methods, and then
proceed the execution of the simulation : you do not need to re-compile the
code and re-start the execution.
clp