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be tied to such a form.

5.1.2 DSPL Conventions

The conventions used in DSPL are as follows:

• all the words provided by the language are in upper-case

(e.g.,

NAME,

PLAN);

• where possible things are presented in an attribute/value form, where the

attribute is some system defined name;

• every declaration in DSPL of an entity associates a name with the entity,

and references to other entities

(e.g.,

steps in a task) are by using their

names;

• calculations are expressed by using specially defined functions that allow

tolerances to be manipulated;

• all variables used in an agent, for holding values from the design data-

base or from calculations ...