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What is Chemical Reaction Models

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Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
An abstract computing model which describes computation using the chemical reaction metaphor. In these models, data are represented as multi-sets and computation is performed by a series of element combination, that is, one or more elements are selected by the operator, if the selected elements satisfy the reaction condition, the selected elements are consumed and new elements that are produced by the reaction rule are injected back into the multi-sets. Computation terminates when no more reaction can take place. The chemical reactions models are suitable to specify high-level architectural properties of complex systems and are used as a specification tool for software architecture and coordination programming.
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Exploiting Agent Technology
Hong Lin (University of Houston-Downtown, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch054
Abstract
Agent-oriented design has become one of the most active areas in the field of software engineering. The agent concept provides a focal point for accountability and responsibility for coping with the complexity of software systems both during design and execution (Yu, 2001). It is deemed that software engineering challenges in developing large-scale distributed systems can be overcome by an agent-based approach (Paquette, 2001). In this approach, a distributed system can be modeled as a set of autonomous, cooperating agents that communicate intelligently with one another, automate or semi-automate functional operations, and interact with human users at the right time with the right information.
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