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King, G. W., Atkin, M. S., Westbrook, D., and Cohen, P. R. (2002) Tapir: the Evolution of an Agent Control Language. In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Bologna, Italy.
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Tapir: the Evolution of an Agent Control Language
Gary W. King
University of Massachusetts
140 Governor's Lane
Amherst, MA 01003
gwking@cs.umass.edu
Marc S. Atkin
University of Massachusetts
140 Governor's Lane
Amherst, MA 01003
atkin@cs.umass.edu
David L. Westbrook
University of Massachusetts
140 Governor's Lane
Amherst, MA 01003
westy@cs.umass.edu
Abstract Tapir is a general purpose, semi­declarative agent control language that extends and enhances the Hierarchical Agent Control (HAC) architecture [1]. Tapir incorporates the lessons learned from de­ veloping HAC and makes it easier and faster to create reusable and understandable actions. Tapir has been used in a battalion level war­game simulation, a robot simulator, a simulation of cel­ lular dynamics and a simulation of rodent behavior. The language is built around constructs that define agents, sensors, actions, and messages. It has mechanisms for handling multiple agents, a flexi­ ble resource model, and multiple means for structuring concurrent actions. This paper provides an overview of HAC and its short­ comings and then explains how Tapir extends and improves upon it.
1. INTRODUCTION Building on previous work in simulation and agent control [1, 7, 19] we have created Tapir: an expressive agent control language with a simple syntax. Tapir has been used in multiple systems by experienced and novice agent programmers and has fostered dra­ matic increases in productivity. Tapir constructs are self­contained and modular, making them human­understandable and machine­ parsable. Tapir is a semi­declarative, general purpose agent control language implemented in Common Lisp. Tapir has constructs for defining agents, sensors, actions, and messages: Agents Agents are viewed primarily as resources for actions. They connect actions to the physics of the real or simulated do­ main. As resources, agents come in many different types. For example, they can be serializably reusable, sharable, com­ posite, consumable and so ...
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@inproceedings{king02tapirThe,
  author={Gary W. King and Marc S. Atkin and David Westbrook and Paul R. Cohen},
  title={Tapir: the Evolution of an Agent Control Language},
  year={2002},
  address={Bologna, Italy},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/king02tapirThe.html}
}

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