PBAADC 2013 - International Workshop on PROGRAMMING BASED ON ACTORS, AGENTS, AND DECENTRALIZED CONTROL

Nadeem Jamali, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna, Italy
Gera Weiss, Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel
Akinori Yonezawa, Riken Advance Institute of Computational Science, Kobe, Japan
ago, agis, egi, actum, agere
latin verb meaning to act, to lead, to do, common root for actors and agents
The fundamental turn of software into concurrency and distribution is not only a matter of performance, but also of design and abstraction. It calls for programming paradigms that, compared to current mainstream ones, would allow us to think about, design, develop, execute, debug, and profile - more naturally - systems exhibiting different degrees of concurrency, asynchrony, and physical distribution. To this purpose, the AGERE! workshop is aimed at focusing on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, agents and other programming paradigms promoting a decentralized-control mindset in solving problems and developing software. The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on the models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications.
Urlhttp://agents.usask.ca/agere2013