Subject: RE: State machine for "empty" agents
From: Thomas Weigert (thomas.weigert#motorola.com)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 13:31:24 GMT
My intuition is that every agent should have behavior. If none is explicitly
defined in terms of a state machine, then the behavior is determined by the
contained agents (e.g., stops when all contained agents stop) or immediately
stops otherwise.
This could be accomplished by having an implicit state machine that just
transitions into the stop state from the initial state, or one could give a
direct semantics as you describe below.
Either way is fine, albeit the latter seems to introduce additional cases
whereas the former works without changing anything in the semantics.
All the best, Th.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-meeting#sdl-forum.org [mailto:owner-meeting#sdl-forum.org]On
> I suggest that the state machine of block B enters the stopping
> condition as
> soon as it is created.
>
> I suggest to refine the definition of Create Request so that it interprets
> the Start Node - if there is one, or enters the stopping condition.
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