10.3 Place 361
the survival services restarts the agent after the defined period of time.
Now, the agent is in state 1 which causes a “Hello World!” message to be
printed at the user’s console. Because the agent remains in this state, the
agent is restarted every 5 seconds and always prints the same message.
10.3 Place
The Place plugin provides the place service, which agents can use to
retrieve information about their environment. As we have mentioned before,
an agent is not able to communicate to the hosting agency directly; the only
way to do so is to use a plugin that provides a service for this task. The most
important service of this plugin is to provide agents a means to obtain their
own names and the names of other agents currently residing ...