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Implementation Languages and Systems

themselves may query a user via the system user-interface and

monitor agent for messages which are not produced by other

rules.

In the future,

we

expect to apply MACE to problems of modeling

how agents form alliances and routinize interaction for coordi-

nated problem-solving. We are working toward using MACE

for robotics problems, including parts-passing and distributed

planning/task allocation.

10 Acknowledgements

We thank Janet Coates, Gary Doney, Lunze Liu, and Fernando

Tenorio for implementation work and/or comments on earlier

drafts. We also thank the Intel Corporation and

Prof.

Kai

Hwang for thei ...