Agent Oriented Programming Languages

Agent based programming is an interesting approach for simulation and modeling – look on articles about agent based modeling (ABM) – e.g. http://www.pnas.org/content/99/suppl.3/7280.full

There is also the agent oriented programming paradigm (AOP) – see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-oriented_programming.

Unfortunately, the list of AOP languages is long, most are proprietary, decommissioned, and it seems to me that there did still no main stream emerge:

• 2APL / 3APL
• AFAPL
• Agent0
• Agent Factory
• Agent Sheet
• Agent Speak
• ASPECS
• BRAHMS
• Breve
• Concurrent METATEM
• CArtAgo
• DigiHive
• GOAL
• Jack
• Jade
• Jadex
• Janus Project
• JIAC
• NetLogo
• StarLogo
• Steve
• SOAR
• SPARK

That’s a lot – maybe you can help me to find even more.

Many of them are similar and implement a belief–desire–intention software model (BDI) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief-Desire-Intention_software_model

In some later Blog I’ll give some feedback on the languages I’ve tried myself.