GMAL: a reflective language for distributed AI

Abstract

GMAL is an actor language based on a reflective representationof LIICactor model. This modelization provides interesting features for a tool of Distributed Artificial Intelligence such as modularity, flexibility, i~erent parallelism and easy integration of intelligent functions such as introspection. We give first, a brief presentation of the pure actor model of Agha and show how GMAL is designed as a closure of this model. We preSent then, the interest of such a modelization for a tool for DAI and finish by presenting an example on the use of GMAL for knowledge’s representation, exploitation and generation.