Exception Handling in SARL as a Responsibility Distribution

Exception handling has been successfully proposed in software engineering practice as a simple, but effective, technology to address abnormal situations possibly occurring at runtime. Such mechanisms support the robust composition of heterogeneous software components, promoting code modularity, deco...

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Published inProcedia computer science Vol. 201; pp. 795 - 800
Main Authors Baldoni, Matteo, Baroglio, Cristina, Chiappino, Giovanni, Micalizio, Roberto, Tedeschi, Stefano
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2022
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Exception Handling
Responsibility
Robustness
SARL
Software Composition
Exception Handling
Robustness
Software Composition
Responsibility
SARL
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Summary:Exception handling has been successfully proposed in software engineering practice as a simple, but effective, technology to address abnormal situations possibly occurring at runtime. Such mechanisms support the robust composition of heterogeneous software components, promoting code modularity, decoupling, and separation of concerns. Multi-agent systems bring these features to an extreme, but often lack systematic mechanisms for treating exceptions as part of their design. In this paper, we show how exception handling mechanism can be introduced in SARL, leveraging the abstractions that characterize its programming model. We introduce a new kind of space, supporting the responsibility distribution among agents concerning the handling of exceptional situations.
ISSN:1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2022.03.112